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have a real principle of subordination; other things are good in proportion as they lend themselves to the accomplishment of this main design, or at least do not actively impede it. Sub-ordination to the 'self,' on the contrary, has no plain meaning, unless we fall back on the outworn notion of 'faculties' standing to one another in some inherent relationship of worth. As a working tool, the 'whole' is thus no standard fact of human nature. Neither the whole, nor what is meant in the concrete by subordination to the whole, is determinable until the particular task is chosen; and what that central organizing fact shall be, we cannot discover without an experimental appeal to the individual case.
A. K. Rogers.
