better part. It would not therefore be freedom; it would be slavery, because he would not be free to be himself - his worse self. Likewise the sum total of human relationships, which is the community, would also be imperfect, being made up of imperfect component parts. It could not be anything else. Insofar as perfect relationships exist in this community, they are artificial in that they are not functions of the whole personality of the persons involved. They do not last. A friendship, in which two friends are always on their best behaviour, does not last. The community is condemned to be a fallen world!

The question is what should one do about it? One cannot of course wave a wand and put things right. Nor is it any good talking to people, because by and large people are not open to reason. So the question becomes: how should a reasonably enlightened person, (by which I mean only someone who tries to see things as they really are, and does not deliberately indulge in illusion), behave in a fallen world? I insist that this is the proper question to ask, because I insist on the observer also being participant.