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For it is the peculiarity of our age that the rebels against the existing order, at any rate the most numerous and characteristic of them, are also rebelling against the idea of individual integrity. 'Daring to stand alone' is ideologically criminal as well as practically dangerous. 42 The constant reference to nothing but one's own senseexperience and one's own conscience may leave one the freedom to recognise and resist those blandishments which would subvert one's independence but there is a high price to pay in terms of moral isolation from the human community, which no amount of 'commitment' will disguise.
It was part and product of the Protestant reformation and suceeded as Tawney showed in concentrating and crystallising the ethic in social and economic forms which ensured that its particular tenets would deeply more deeply than any other, perhaps - imbue our cultural life. And it is no more than one would expect that the fundamentalist, latter-day Orwell should be attracted to the more rigorous side ofthe tradition. Keeping in mind Tawney's seasonable admonition that 'ideas have a pedigree which, if realised, would often embarrass their exponents' we might, albeit riskily, catalogue the derivatives referred to above as follows: activism and a pragmatic commitment to the job nearest to hand, antiintellectualism and an emphasis on will, anti-hedonism, a crusading sense of mission and an insistence on discipline, a belief in 'character' and the moral necessity of strenuous effort.
At other times still, his defence is so spirited and ebullient that his doubts seem to have vanished. Until his last book he is capable of laying his emphasis on any of these different projections. Of course there were occasions when in the best Puritan A LABORIOUS CALLING tradition confidence in his purpose and in his capacity to save the individual waned and we see him soldiering on simply through an exertion of will. But for the rest he is as purposeful as was the Daniel of the revivalist hymn.