The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
— Rudyard Kipling, born in this date in 1865
Is there a citation for this? It sounds a little, though only a little, like something in his autobiography. But mostly what one notices in Kipling is ferocious attachment to tribe, with occasional uneasiness about the state when its policies don't align with the tribe's wishes.
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