disregarding conventional morality; it is an argument for getting down to work to build a better society or community.
It is now possible to fuse these two ideas. The team relationship imposes a rigid control over the individual actions of team members; but at the same time tension is avoided and the tendency on the part of individuals to be defiant and different is avoided, because in the team the individual confidence is itself modified by the team relationship.
So at last we have harmony. When a man plays his part as a member of a team, his action is the natural expression of his modified confidence in a way that harmonizes with the actions of the rest of the team. That is exactly what team-work is, as anyone who has been a member of a team knows. Team-work action is not tension; it is ease and grace, occasionally even poetry. Membership of a team, where there is a proper relationship, is not slavery; it is freedom - the freedom to be oneself, one's true self, as opposed to one's egotistical self. The discipline of the Army can be freedom, and it matters nothing that the discipline is strict. Team-work with pagans affects one's behaviour in exactly the same way as team-work with christians. The mechanism is the same, namely the type of relationship formed in the team, which has almost nothing to do with academic religious beliefs. Indeed I think one may go further, and say that the more academic religious beliefs cluttering up a man's mental equipment the more unreliable he is likely to be in any situation involving danger.
We make this twofold discovery. To achieve an adequate description of team-work, it appears necessary to postulate that the team relationship itself moulds the consciousness, and therefore the thought processes of the individual members of the team, in particular of course their confidence. In consequence, a team relationship does limit the beliefs a member of the team can have verified by experience - at any particular moment, because it severely…