THE HARMONY OF VIRTUE

VII. 2. The Process of Evolution351of the lover of liberty who seeks an anarchist freedom, or of thelover of equality who tries to establish a socialistic dead level,or of the lover of fraternity who dreams of a world-embracingcommunism. But some harmonisation of this great ideal is undoubtedlythe immediate future of the human race. On the oldforces of despotism, inequality and unbridled competition, afterthey have been once more overthrown, a process of gradualsaÌyama will be performed by which what has remained of themwill be regarded as the disappearing vestiges of a dead realityand without any further violent coercion be transformed slowlyand steadily out of existence.