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... difference between Jack London and Martin Eden is that Martin Eden rejects socialism (attacking it as 'slave morality'), and relies on a Nietzschean individualism. In a note to Upton Sinclair, Jack London wrote, One of my motifs, in this book, was an attack on individualism (in the person of the hero). I must have bungled, for not a single reviewer has discovered it....

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...the same sign. T o ignore this is the essential fallacy of the cult called Individualism. But in truth, a general prohibition in a state may increase ... ...opias hitherto, we can make absolute statements, pre- scribe communisms or individualisms, and all sorts of hard theoretic arrangements. But in the wo... ...s founder, at least as a veritable com- munism, by reason of the insurgent individualism of its vig- 57 H G Wells orous sons. More, too, denied priva... ...entury long—between Communistic and Socialistic ideas on the one hand, and Individualism on the other, emerges upon a sort of effectual conclusion to ... ...sion of a quantitative for a qualitative question. To the on- looker, both Individualism and Socialism are, in the abso- lute, absurdities; the one wo... ...children— and every civilised State—even that compendium of old- fashioned Individualism, the United States of America—is now disposed to admit the ne...

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...hteenth and earlier nineteenth centu- ries constituted a period of extreme individualism. What were called “economic forces” had unrestricted play. In... ...ation. How far in each country will imagination triumph over tradition and individualism? How far does the practical bank- ruptcy of Western civilisat... ...here are two diametrically different ways of thinking about life; there is individualism, the way that comes as naturally as the grunt from a pig, of ... ...country as a sheep-dog feels toward the flock. The former is the spirit of individualism, “business,” and our law, the latter the spirit of socialism ... ...SOCIALISM? A NUMBER OF PEOPLE are saying that this war is to be the end of Individualism. “Go as you please” has had its death-blow. Out of this war, ... ...instances. The best illustration, perhaps, of the waste that arises out of individualism is to be found in the extreme dislocation of the privately ow... ...nd energetic steps to secure this essential ingredient of cartridge cases. Individualism had let zinc refining drift to Belgium and Germany; it was th... ...res in individualistic Bel- gium and France. So we pass from the fact that individualism is hopeless muddle to the fact that the individualist idea is... .... Muddle and venality do not, however, exhaust the dem- onstrated vices of individualism. Individualism encourages desertion and treason. Individualis...

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...a purely Latin and social conception of order. In it 56 VII — IN CONCLUSION individualism has no place. It is based on the interests of the family, a...

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...t, and despotism it- self cannot reign without its support. Chapter II: Of Individualism in Democratic Countries I have shown how it is that in ages o... ... that, in the same ages, all his feelings are turned towards himselfalone. Individualism* is a novel ex- pression, to which a novel idea has given bir... ...ing with his own person, and to prefer himself to everything in the world. Individualism is a mature and calm feeling, which disposes each member of t... ...y leaves society at large to itself. Egotism originates in blind instinct: individualism proceeds from erroneous judgment more than from depraved feel... ...as in the perversity of the heart. Egotism blights the germ of all virtue; individualism, at first, only saps the virtues of public life; but, in the ... ...orld, which does not belong to one form of society more than to an- other: individualism is of democratic origin, and it threatens to spread in the sa... ...thin the solitude of his own heart. 576 Democracy in America Chapter III: Individualism Stronger at the Close of a Democratic Revolution Than at Othe... ...stead of becoming so. Chapter IV: That the Americans Combat the Effects of Individualism by Free Institutions Despotism, which is of a very timorous n... ...refore become more necessary in propor- tion as men become more equal, and individualism more to be feared. To suppose that they only serve to protect...

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...ns to measure the blindness, the narrow- ness, the insensate unimaginative individualism of the pre- atomic time. Under this tremendous dawn of power ... ...ore Holsten was just a hundred years’ crescendo of waste. Only the extreme individualism of that period, only its utter want of any collective underst...

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... which have weakened paternal power, this system has led to the triumph of individualism, which is now permeating the 87 Balzac whole of modern socie... ... basis independence of thought and will, and such freedom is the parent of individualism. T o make happiness depend on the stability, intelligence, an...

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...he fifteenth century, had often fancied that only in that period of fierce individualism could types so paradoxical have been produced; yet the subtle...

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...und and sincere constructive proposal. It is a prolonged scream of extreme individualism, a monotonous repetition of incoherent discontent with author...

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...able finite thing. The fact that Herbert Spencer called a certain doctrine Individualism reflects noth- ing on the non-individualizing quality of his ...

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...by multiplying the family by the family, has created a great evil,—namely, individualism. In the depths of this solitude where their girlhood was spen...

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...upted Fenellan. ‘As much of the former as you like. He ‘s right about our “individualismus” being another name for selfishness, and showing the usual ... ...elfishness, and showing the usual deficiency in external features; it’s an individualism of all of a pattern, as when a mob cuts its lucky, each fello... ...able.—A person in the debate had declared this modern protest on behalf of individualism to represent Society’s Criminal Trial. And it is likely to be...

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...play:—’Naylor minor must pass more. Foot- ball isn’t the place for extreme individualism.’ ‘Ammersham shapes well as half-back.’ Things like that.” “I... ...imple democratic cry we had done with for ever. We were socialists because Individualism for us meant muddle, meant a crowd of separated, undiscipline...

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...misfortunes in Texas, his stay in New Y ork,—a place where speculation and individualism are carried to the highest pitch, where the brutality of self...

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...nce they inflicted, and you will ask yourself, as you deplore the evils of individualism (the disease of our present France, the germ of which was in ...

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...t is not a fine disdain for material things,” said Benham. “That is merely individualism and unsystematic living.” “A mere phase of frankness. Only fr...

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...eap success, and the only individualist is the person who gives up all his individualism to serve a jolly ungrateful proletariat which thumbs its nose...

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...onsider some of the key words of contemporary thought, such as Liberalism, Individualism, Socialism, in the light of this broad generalisation we have... ...l basis of humanity for immemorial years. This is as true of the extremest Individualism as of the extremest So- cialism. The former denies that eleme... ...time is not a battle-ground be- 80 An Englishman Looks at the World tween individualism and socialism; it is a battle-ground be- tween the Normal Soc... ...ndly distrustful of churches and states, which is expressed essentially by Individualism. The Individualist appears to regard the extensive disintegra... ...le finite thing. The fact that Herbert Spen- cer called a certain doctrine Individualism reflects nothing on the non-individualising quality of his pr... ...erican tradition. It is, however, very clearly an out- come of the intense individualism of that tradition. Under the sway of that it has burnt its fu... ...l to the moral motive which was for so long the salva- tion of the Puritan individualism from which the American tradition derives. “That hand,” he wr... ...any way. They tend merely to simplify it to bare irrespon- sible non-moral individualism. It is with the detail and quali- fication of a tradition as ...

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...fects are altogether of another kind, tending to a certain exaggeration of individualism and, perhaps, to an extreme belief in the Governing Power of ...

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... another; socialisms which, in fact, come into touch with an intelli- gent individualism, and which are based on the attempt to ensure equality of opp...

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...ected in your sager moods, an ordinary pebble may roll where it likes, for individualism of the multitudinously obscure little affects us. Not so the ...