The Human Cycle

Sri Aurobindo — 78 chapters. Search the full corpus.

  1. The Human Cycle - The Ideal of Human Unity - War and Self-Determination
  2. The Human Cycle
  3. Chapter I - The Cycle of Society
  4. Chapter II - The Age of Individualism and Reason
  5. Chapter III - The Coming of the Subjective Age
  6. Chapter IV - The Discovery of the Nation-Soul
  7. Chapter V - True and False Subjectivism
  8. Chapter VI - The Objective and SubjectiveViews of Life
  9. Chapter VII - The Ideal Law of SocialDevelopment
  10. Chapter VIII - Civilisation and Barbarism
  11. Chapter IX - Civilisation and Culture
  12. Chapter X - Aesthetic and Ethical Culture
  13. Chapter XI - The Reason as Governor of Life
  14. Chapter XII - The Office and Limitations of the Reason
  15. Chapter XIII - Reason and Religion
  16. Chapter XIV - The Suprarational Beauty
  17. Chapter XV - The Suprarational Good
  18. Chapter XVI - The Suprarational Ultimate of Life
  19. Chapter XVII - Religion as the Law of Life
  20. Chapter XVIII - The Infrarational Age of the Cycle
  21. Chapter XIX - The Curve of the Rational Age
  22. Chapter XX - The End of the Curve of Reason
  23. Chapter XXI - The Spiritual Aim and Life
  24. Chapter XXII - The Necessity of the Spiritual Transformation
  25. Chapter XXIII - Conditions for the Coming of a Spiritual Age
  26. Chapter XXIV - The Advent and Progress of the Spiritual Age
  27. The Ideal of Human Unity
  28. Preface to the First Edition
  29. The Ideal of Human Unity - Part I
  30. Chapter I - The Turn towards Unity Its Necessity and Dangers
  31. Chapter II - The Imperfection of Past Aggregates
  32. Chapter III - The Group and the Individual
  33. Chapter IV - The Inadequacy of the State Idea
  34. Chapter V - Nation and Empire Real and Political Unities
  35. Chapter VI - Ancient and Modern Methods of Empire
  36. Chapter VII - The Creation of the Heterogeneous Nation
  37. Chapter VIII - The Problem of a Federated Heterogeneous Empire
  38. Chapter IX - The Possibility of a World-Empire
  39. Chapter X - The United States of Europe
  40. Chapter XI - The Small Free Unit and the Larger Concentrated Unity
  41. Chapter XII - The Ancient Cycle of Prenational Empire-Building The Modern Cycle of Nation-Building
  42. Chapter XIII - The Formation of the Nation-Unit The Three Stages
  43. Chapter XIV - The Possibility of a First Step towards International Unity Its Enormous Difficulties
  44. Chapter XV - Some Lines of Fulfilment
  45. Chapter XVI - The Problem of Uniformity and Liberty
  46. The Ideal of Human Unity - Part II
  47. Chapter XVII - Nature s Law in Our Progress Unity in Diversity Law and Liberty
  48. Chapter XVIII - The Ideal Solution A Free Grouping of Mankind
  49. Chapter XIX - The Drive towards Centralisation and Uniformity Administration and Control of Foreign Affairs
  50. Chapter XX - The Drive towards Economic Centralisation
  51. Chapter XXI - The Drive towards Legislative and Social Centralisation and Uniformity
  52. Chapter XXII - World-Union or World-State
  53. Chapter XXIII - Forms of Government
  54. Chapter XXIV - The Need of Military Unification
  55. Chapter XXV - War and the Need of Economic Unity
  56. Chapter XXVI - The Need of Administrative Unity
  57. Chapter XXVII - The Peril of the World-State
  58. Chapter XXVIII - Diversity in Oneness
  59. Chapter XXIX - The Idea of a League of Nations
  60. Chapter XXX - The Principle of Free Confederation
  61. Chapter XXXI - The Conditions of a Free World-Union
  62. Chapter XXXII - Internationalism
  63. Chapter XXXIII - Internationalism and Human Unity
  64. Chapter XXXIV - The Religion of Humanity
  65. Chapter XXXV - Summary and Conclusion
  66. A Postscript Chapter
  67. War and Self-Determination
  68. Foreword to the First Edition
  69. The Passing of War
  70. The Unseen Power
  71. Self-Determination
  72. A League of Nations
  73. 1919
  74. After the War
  75. Appendixes
  76. Appendix I
  77. Appendix II
  78. Note on the Texts