We talk of democracy, aristocracy and autocracy, collectivism and individualism, imperialism and nationalism the State and the commune, capitalism and labour; we advance hasty generalisations and make absolute systems which are positively announced today only to be abandoned perforce tomorrow; ....our whole thought and action with regard to our collective life is shallow and empirical; it does not seek for, it does not base itself on a firm, profound and complete knowledge. - Sri Aurobindo