of the whole personality. Imperfect team-work is less limiting than perfect team-work as regards the beliefs a man can verify; but it does not offer the same fulfilment.

So ultimately everyone is free to decide whether they will believe that death overwhelms life, or that friendships are potentially immortal. In practice no team-work is perfect, none that one is likely to meet. So entering a team is not going to inhibit men's conduct so much, as to prevent them making this personal decision. Having decided whether to believe in immortality, they can then put their beliefs into practice, and wait to see what verification experience brings. Indeed everyone is challenged to make this declaration of faith from time to time. If a man dodges the challenge, and deliberately enters a friendship on the basis that it will be temporary, he does so cynically for what he can get out of it.

Is this discussion of team-work an adequate description of a man's relationship with the community, bearing in mind that society in England is a very imperfect team? No, because for the personality to mature a man must get involved at least for a time in a relationship in which his whole personality is involved, and it is rare to find team-work sufficiently closely knit to enable a man to reach maturity. Perhaps a man may find it in the army in war; or in peace in a recreation like rock climbing. But for most men and women the problem is solved for them unexpectedly – they fall in love.