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he were a mere means to relieve another man of his
burden. 1

Dr. D'Arcy repeats (pt. ii. ch. v. p. 124) his conviction that
the view that society is an organism cannot be rendered
appHcable to the facts. ' The essential egoism of every
individual mind is a perpetual protest against it. No man
can really regard himself, or even think himself, as the mere
correlative of aU other men. . . . For himself each one is,
by the very constitution of his intellectual nature, the
ultimate unit of his own world of experience. He can only
think society as organic by subordinating other persons to
himself in thought, and regarding them for the time, not
as subjects, but as objects.'

Dr. D'Arcy repeats his teaching that ' the one conception
which can unify the good by identifying personal good with
common good is the conception of a transcendent principle
of unity forming a bond of union among all persons ' (p. 124).
' It is, then, because man must seek the source of his
being and his connexion with his fellows in his relation
with God, that all goods must be identified. The good of
each man is the good of every man, because aU are one in
God ' {ib.). Again, ' when the man and his duty are traced
to their source in God, the distinction vanishes, and all
duties Eire found to be at once duties to self, to others, and
to God' (p. 125).
