The outcome of this
principle affords us a glimpse of an order of things in which the
State, sole proprietor of real-estate, sole capitalist, sole
manufacturer, sole trader, having all Frenchmen in its pay and
service, would assign to each one his task according to his aptitude,
and distribute to each one his rations according to his wants.[85] --
These various uncompleted plans still float in a hazy distance but
their common purpose is clearly distinguishable.
"All which tends to center human passions on the vile, individual ego
must be repudiated or repressed;"[86]
We should annihilate special interests, deprive the individual of the
motives and means for self-isolation, suppress preoccupations and
ambitions by which Man makes himself a focal point at the expense of
the real center, in short, to detach him from himself in order to
attach him wholly to the State.
This is why, disregarding the narrow egoism through which the
individual prefers himself to the community, we strive towards the
enlarged egoism by which the individual prefers the community to the
group of which he forms a part. Under no pretext must he separate
himself from the whole, at no price, must he be allowed to form for
himself a small homeland within the large one, for, by the affection
he entertains for the small one, he frustrates the objects of the
large one.
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