Page 12 - Ideal of Progress for Humanity

Always it is the individual who progresses

and compels the rest to progress; the

instinct of the collectivity is to stand still in

its established order. Progress, growth,

realisation of wider being give his greatest

sense of happiness to the individual; status,

secure ease to the collectivity. And so it

must be as long as the latter is more a

physical and economic entity than a self-

conscious collective soul.

(Sri Aurobindo, CWSA, 25: 302)