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No highest good of the coive him the

vital fulfilment of his soul He knew this But he did not

consider the soul of the individual sufficiently important He

believed a man was important in so far as he represented all

humanity

He could not see, it was not born in hiood of the coood of even the average individual He thought that,

because the community represents millions of people, therefore

it must be etting that the community is an abstraction from the many,

and is not the ood for the co in

all inspiration or value to the average intelligence, then the

"coar, conservative reatest number is chiefly

meant the material prosperity of all classes Skrebensky did not

really care about his own material prosperity If he had been

penniless--well, he would have taken his chances Therefore

how could he find his highest good in giving up his life for the

material prosperity of everybody else! What he considered an

uni for himself he could not think worthy of every

sacrifice on behalf of other people And that which he would

consider of the deepest importance to himself as an