We call a man irrational when he acts in a passion,when he cuts off his dick to spite his face.He is irrational because he forgets that,by indulging the desire which he happen to feel most strongly at the moment,he will thwart other desires which in the long run are more important to him.

The irony is that if men were rational,they would take a correct view of their own interest than they do at present; and if all men acted from enlighted self- interest the world would be a paradise in comparision with what it is.I do not maintain that theres nothing better than self interest as a motive to action; but i do maintain that self interest like altruism is better when enlightened than when it is unenlightened. In an ordered community it is very rarely to a mans interest to do anything which is very harmfull to others.The less rational a man is,the oftener he will fail to perceive how what injures others also injures him,because hatred or envy will blind him.

Thus,although i do not pretend that enlightened self interest is the highest morality,I do maintain that,if it become a common,it would make the world an immeasurable better place than it is. Rationality in practice is a matter of degree.complete rationality is no doubt an unattainable ideal,but so long as we continue to classify some men as lunatic it is clear that we think some men more rational than others.To preach an altruistic morality appears to me somewhat useless because it will appear only to those who already have altruistic desires.But to preach rationality is somewhat difference,since rationality help us to realise our own desire on the whole,whatever they may be.A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and control his desires.I believe that control of our acts by our intelligence is ultimately what is of most importance and that alone would make social life remain possible as science increase the means at our disposal for injuring each others.Education,the press,politics,religion- in a word,all the great forces in the world-are at present on the side of irrationality,they are in the hands of men who flatter King Demos in order to lead him astray.

The remedy lies not in heroically catalysmic,but in the efforts of individual towards a more sand and balanced view of our relations to one another and the world.It is to intelligence,increasingly side spread,that we must look for the solution of the ills from which our society is suffering.

Note:The writers reflect only his personal view in connivance with the present impasse in our society.