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ULTRAMONTANISM 159 Neither again is it in the assistant-masters, nor in the prefects ; nor in all these to- gether. It is something far deeper than the will of any official or of a corporate body of officials ; and it is potent over them, no less than over their subjects. It is surely the general expression of the communal life in the school, which goes on from generation to generation, which is being silently moulded every day and year, which in the most conservative of societies is always shg...htly changing, which includes in its sphere all the written rules and stated commands, all the personal qualities of past and present officials ; and not only theirs, but that of every single member of the society. The new boy, to whom it seems at first purely external, is yet always a part of this very authority which he obeys, and will have his own effect, slight or weighty, on the total result. Probably it is best expressed by the term of Rousseau, The General Will ; and hke Rousseau we must insist that every indi- vidual has and must have by the nature of things his share in forming that General Will, even though at any moment it may 160 CHURCHES IN THE MODERN STATE go entirely against his own judgment, ex- cept the one desire to continue a member of the society.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
ULTRAMONTANISM 159 Neither again is it in the assistant-masters, nor in the prefects ; nor in all these to- gether. It is something far deeper than the will of any official or of a corporate body of officials ; and it is potent over them, no less than over their subjects. It is surely the general expression of the communal life in the school, which goes on from generation to generation, which is being silently moulded every day and year, which in the most conservative of societies is always shg...htly changing, which includes in its sphere all the written rules and stated commands, all the personal qualities of past and present officials ; and not only theirs, but that of every single member of the society. The new boy, to whom it seems at first purely external, is yet always a part of this very authority which he obeys, and will have his own effect, slight or weighty, on the total result. Probably it is best expressed by the term of Rousseau, The General Will ; and hke Rousseau we must insist that every indi- vidual has and must have by the nature of things his share in forming that General Will, even though at any moment it may 160 CHURCHES IN THE MODERN STATE go entirely against his own judgment, ex- cept the one desire to continue a member of the society.
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