occasioned by personal greeds, ambitions, and selfishnesses, but not by
conflicting conceptions of right and wrong, of the desirable and
undesirable, in all branches of human life. (Only those who have been
thrown into contact with a stationary and homogeneous society such as that
of primitive African tribes before coming in contact with Europeans; or
such as the up-country Boers of South Africa were twenty years ago, can
realise adequately how wholly free from moral and social problems and
social friction such a society can be. It is in studying such societies
that the truth is vividly forced on one, that the key to half, and more
than half, of the phenomena in our own social condition, can be found only
in our rapidly changing conditions necessitating equally rapid change in
our conceptions, ideals, and institutions.)

Thirdly, the unrest and suffering peculiar to our age is caused by conflict
going on within the individual himself. So intensely rapid is the change
which is taking place in our environment and knowledge that in the course
of a single life a man may pass through half a dozen phases of growth.
Born and reared in possession of certain ideas and manners of action, he or
she may, before middle life is reached, have had occasion repeatedly to
modify, enlarge, and alter, or completely throw aside those traditions.
Within the individuality itself of such persons, goes on, in an intensified
form, that very struggle, conflict, and disco-ordination which is going on
in society at large between its different members and sections; and
agonising moments must arise, when the individual, seeing the necessity for
adopting new courses of action, or for accepting new truths, or conforming
to new conditions, will yet be tortured by the hold of traditional
convictions; and the man or woman who attempts to adapt their life to the
new material conditions and to harmony with the new knowledge, is almost
bound at some time to rupture the continuity of their own psychological
existence.