sound when it led them to attach
such importance to the wandering
and the return; the separation ef-
fected in order that individuality and
character might be realised through
isolation and experience, the return
voluntarily made through clear recog-
nition of the soundness of the primi-
tive relations, the beauty of the ser-
vice of the older and wiser to the
younger and the more ignorant. We
are born into relations which we ac-
cept as normal and inevitable; we
break away from them in order that
by detachment we may see them ob-
jectively and from a distance, and that
we may come to self-consciousness;
we resume these relations of delib-
erate purpose and with clear percep-
tion of their moral significance. So
the boy, grown to manhood, returns
to his home from the world in which

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