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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Soul of Man by Oscar Wilde: should he? If he can think, he will probably think differently.
If he cannot think, it is monstrous to require thought of any kind
from him. A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red
rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other
flowers in the garden to be both red and roses. Under
Individualism people will be quite natural and absolutely
unselfish, and will know the meanings of the words, and realise
them in their free, beautiful lives. Nor will men be egotistic as
they are now. For the egotist is he who makes claims upon others,
and the Individualist will not desire to do that. It will not give
him pleasure. When man has realised Individualism, he will also
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