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endeavor to be rational, to forego at least some of our
emotional social needs, to look after ourselves, and to
accept responsibilities. We must, I believe, bear this strain
as the price to be paid for every increase in knowledge, in
reasonableness, in co-operation and in mutual help, and
consequently in our chances of survival, and in the size of
the population. It is the price we have to pay for being
human.
The strain is most closely related to the problem of
the tension between the classes which is raised for the
first time by the breakdown of the closed society. The
closed society itself does not know this problem. At least
to its ruling members, slavery, caste, and class rule are
‘natural’ in the sense of being unquestionable. But with
the breakdown of the closed society, this certainty