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sustain in every essential part the full circle of human interests". He says:
"Let us cry 'All good things
Are ours' nor soul helps flesh more now Than flesh helps soul."
Again to the ancient Humanist, Individuality just like the Absolute was an unreality and a snare, while to the modern it is the very breath of his existence. He believes in the Relative as aganist the Absolute, and whatever is individual and unique-in Art, Literature, Science and Philosophy-is the ultimate Truth and the ultimate Good of modern Humanism.
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Another distinguishing feature of contemporary thought is the emphasis which it places upon the principle of Solidarity or Wholeness-the 'Krtsna' of the Bhagavadgītā. Although particularists or believers in discrete entities both in the world of Science and of Philosophy are not wanting-thus the doctrines of Leibnitzian monads has been revived in some circles and Plurlism is also receiving some countenancethe main body of opinion inclines towards the view that the world is one organic whole, in which the whole is prior to the parts. Among others, Bergson in France, Losky in Russia, and General Smuts in South Africa have laid stress on this aspect. The idea cannot be said to be altogether new in philosophy, but its application to the problems of the day in Psychology, Ethics, Politics, Sociology and Economics is of comparatively recent date. The doctrine of "Group Mind" despite its criticism by distinguished psychologists owing to misapprehension of its true
