Savitri
The Collected Works of Sri Aurobindo & The Mother
← Sri Aurobindo

The Human Cycle · The Ideal of Human Unity · War and Self-Determination

CWSA· Vol. 25· Prose

Book 1. The Human Cycle · The Ideal of Human Unity · War and Self-Determination

  1. C. 1The Human Cycle
  2. C. 2Chapter I - The Cycle of Society
  3. C. 3Chapter II - The Age of Individualism and Reason
  4. C. 4Chapter III - The Coming of the Subjective Age
  5. C. 5Chapter IV - The Discovery of the Nation-Soul
  6. C. 6Chapter V - True and False Subjectivism
  7. C. 7Chapter VI - The Objective and SubjectiveViews of Life
  8. C. 8Chapter VII - The Ideal Law of SocialDevelopment
  9. C. 9Chapter VIII - Civilisation and Barbarism
  10. C. 10Chapter IX - Civilisation and Culture
  11. C. 11Chapter X - Aesthetic and Ethical Culture
  12. C. 12Chapter XI - The Reason as Governor of Life
  13. C. 13Chapter XII - The Office and Limitations of the Reason
  14. C. 14Chapter XIII - Reason and Religion
  15. C. 15Chapter XIV - The Suprarational Beauty
  16. C. 16Chapter XV - The Suprarational Good
  17. C. 17Chapter XVI - The Suprarational Ultimate of Life
  18. C. 18Chapter XVII - Religion as the Law of Life
  19. C. 19Chapter XVIII - The Infrarational Age of the Cycle
  20. C. 20Chapter XIX - The Curve of the Rational Age
  21. C. 21Chapter XX - The End of the Curve of Reason
  22. C. 22Chapter XXI - The Spiritual Aim and Life
  23. C. 23Chapter XXII - The Necessity of the Spiritual Transformation
  24. C. 24Chapter XXIII - Conditions for the Coming of a Spiritual Age
  25. C. 25Chapter XXIV - The Advent and Progress of the Spiritual Age

Book 2. The Ideal of Human Unity

  1. C. 1Preface to the First Edition

Book 3. The Ideal of Human Unity - Part I

  1. C. 1Chapter I - The Turn towards Unity: Its Necessity and Dangers
  2. C. 2Chapter II - The Imperfection of Past Aggregates
  3. C. 3Chapter III - The Group and the Individual
  4. C. 4Chapter IV - The Inadequacy of the State Idea
  5. C. 5Chapter V - Nation and Empire: Real and Political Unities
  6. C. 6Chapter VI - Ancient and Modern Methods of Empire
  7. C. 7Chapter VII - The Creation of the Heterogeneous Nation
  8. C. 8Chapter VIII - The Problem of a Federated Heterogeneous Empire
  9. C. 9Chapter IX - The Possibility of a World-Empire
  10. C. 10Chapter X - The United States of Europe
  11. C. 11Chapter XI - The Small Free Unit and the Larger Concentrated Unity
  12. C. 12Chapter XII - The Ancient Cycle of Prenational Empire-Building—The Modern Cycle of Nation-Building
  13. C. 13Chapter XIII - The Formation of the Nation-Unit—The Three Stages
  14. C. 14Chapter XIV - The Possibility of a First Step towards International Unity—Its Enormous Difficulties
  15. C. 15Chapter XV - Some Lines of Fulfilment
  16. C. 16Chapter XVI - The Problem of Uniformity and Liberty

Book 4. The Ideal of Human Unity - Part II

  1. C. 1Chapter XVII - Nature’s Law in Our Progress—Unity in Diversity, Law and Liberty
  2. C. 2Chapter XVIII - The Ideal Solution—A Free Grouping of Mankind
  3. C. 3Chapter XIX - The Drive towards Centralisation and Uniformity—Administration and Control of Foreign Affairs
  4. C. 4Chapter XX - The Drive towards Economic Centralisation
  5. C. 5Chapter XXI - The Drive towards Legislative and Social Centralisation and Uniformity
  6. C. 6Chapter XXII - World-Union or World-State
  7. C. 7Chapter XXIII - Forms of Government
  8. C. 8Chapter XXIV - The Need of Military Unification
  9. C. 9Chapter XXV - War and the Need of Economic Unity
  10. C. 10Chapter XXVI - The Need of Administrative Unity
  11. C. 11Chapter XXVII - The Peril of the World-State
  12. C. 12Chapter XXVIII - Diversity in Oneness
  13. C. 13Chapter XXIX - The Idea of a League of Nations
  14. C. 14Chapter XXX - The Principle of Free Confederation
  15. C. 15Chapter XXXI - The Conditions of a Free World-Union
  16. C. 16Chapter XXXII - Internationalism
  17. C. 17Chapter XXXIII - Internationalism and Human Unity
  18. C. 18Chapter XXXIV - The Religion of Humanity
  19. C. 19Chapter XXXV - Summary and Conclusion
  20. C. 20A Postscript Chapter

Book 5. War and Self-Determination

  1. C. 1Foreword to the First Edition
  2. C. 2The Passing of War?
  3. C. 3The Unseen Power
  4. C. 4Self-Determination
  5. C. 5A League of Nations
  6. C. 61919
  7. C. 7After the War
  8. C. 8Appendixes
  9. C. 9Appendix I
  10. C. 10Appendix II
  11. C. 11Note on the Texts