Our problem therefore involves the further question, whether those forms of political thought which correspond to the complexity of nature are teachable or not?
At present they are not often taught.

In every generation thousands of young men and women are attracted to politics because their intellects are keener, and their sympathies wider than those of their fellows.

They become followers of Liberalism or Imperialism, of Scientific Socialism or the Rights of Men or Women.

To them, at first, Liberalism and the Empire, Rights and Principles, are real and simple things.

Or, like Shelley, they see in the whole human race an infinite repetition of uniform individuals, the 'millions on millions' who 'wait, firm, rapid, and elate.'[44] [44] Shelley, _Poetical Works_ (H.B.