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But it is to himself that each individual wishes what is good,

and no man, conceiving the possibility of his becoming other than

he now is, chooses that that New Self should have all things

indiscriminately: a god, for instance, has at the present moment

the Chief Good, but he has it in right of being whatever he

actually now is: and the Intelligent Principle must be judged to

be each man's Self, or at least eminently so [though other

Principles help, of course, to constitute him the man he is].