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3. Love is Universal not Personal.66
a. Death cannot Interrupt Love’s Course ... 67
4. Ethical Value of Love.67
III. Love and Marriage.67
IV. Love to Mankind.68
1. Not Philanthropy.68
2. Universal in Character.68
V. The Goal of Love Oneness with the Spirit of Love Itself .... 69
CHAPTER IV.—Politics.
1. Introductory.73
2. Civilization Corrupt.73
a. Return to Nature.74
3. Thoreau and Rousseau.74
4. Basis of Government the Individual.75
5. Democratic the Best Form of Government.76
a. Danger of Perversion to Serve Individual Ends . . 76
b. Against Government by Majorities.77
6. Object of Government.78
a. Kant and Emerson : Morality the Object of Govern-
ment .78
7. Character of the Best Government.79
a. The Best Men its Members.79
b. Representation of the Best Elements of the Nation . 79
8. Relation of the Citizen to the Government.80
a. Duty of Obedience to the Laws of His Own Being
only.80
b. Right of Resistance.81
c. Individual Responsibility.82
d. Power of One Man.82
9. Thoreau’s Attitude toward Socialism.83
10. Ideal Government—No Government.83
APPENDIX.
I. Chronological Table.87
II. Bibliography.91