It was the age of intenseindividualism, when you were to do right because it was becoming to you, say, as a gentleman, and you were to have an eye single to the effect upon your character, if not your reputation; you were not to do a mean thing because it was wrong, but because it was mean.

And they really thought that it was "individualism" for tens of thousands of them to herd together and obey the orders of a steel magnate, and produce hundreds of millions of dollars of wealth for him, and then let him give them libraries; while for them to take the industry, and run it to suit themselves, and build their own libraries--that would have been "Paternalism"!

As I said, I am an individualist, andindividualism is the hereditary and eternal foe of socialism."

The great man who shall save us from the shipwreck which is imminent will no doubt avail himself ofindividualism when he makes a nation of us once more; but until this regeneration comes, we bide our time in a materialistic and utilitarian age.

He stands as the extreme but significant exponent of violent Romanticindividualism in a period when Romantic aspiration was largely disappointed and disillusioned, but was indignantly gathering its strength for new efforts.

"The future is as certain as the past - slavery, feudalism,individualism, collectivism.

Would you believe, they insist on complete absence ofindividualism and that's just what they relish!