It evades the whole question we are asking; for happiness is no more differentiated by saying that it is general, than food is by saying that everyone at a table is eating it; or than a language is by saying that every one in a room is talking it.

The social happiness of all of us means nothing but the personal happiness of each of us; and if social happiness have any single meaning--in other words, if it be a test of morals--it must postulate a personal happiness of some hitherto unexplained kind.

Else sociology will be subsidiary to nothing but individual license; general law will be but the protection of individual lawlessness; and the completest social morality but the condition of the completest personal un-morality.

The social organism we may compare to a yew-tree.

Science will explain to us how it has grown up from the ground, and how all its twigs must have fitting room to expand in.