When a child finds suddenly that his father is not merely keeping him from doing things, that his father has a soul, the father begins to get results out of the child.
As a rule a child discovers first that his father has a soul by noticing that he insists on treating him as if he had one.
Of course a corporation that has not a soul yet does not propose to be dictated to by a government that has not a soul yet. When corporations without souls see overwhelmingly that a government has a soul, they will be filled with a wholesome fear. They will always try at first to prevent it from having a soul if they can.
But the moment it gets one and shows it, they will be glad. They will feel on firm ground. They will know what they know. They will act.
In the hospital on the hill not far from my house, one often sees one attendant going out to walk with twelve insane men. One would think it would not be safe for twelve insane men to go out to walk with one sane man, with one man who has his soul on.
The reason it is safe, is, that the moment one insane man or man who has not his soul on, attacks the man who has a soul, all of the other eleven men throw themselves upon him and fling him to the ground. Men whose souls are not on, protect, every time, the man who has his soul on because the man who has a soul is the only defence they have from the men who have not.
It is going to be the same with governments. We believe in a government's having as much courage in America as a ten-dollar-a-week attendant in an insane asylum. We want a government that sees how courage works.
We are told in the New Testament that we are all members one of another.
If society has a soul and if every member of it has a soul, what is the relation of the social soul to the individual soul?
A man's soul is the faculty in him for seeing the Whole in relation to the part—his vision for others in relation to his vision for himself.