TSE

"I have just one note to add, which is the preface to an extensive sequel. I believe that at the present time the problem of the unification of the world and the problem of the unification of the individual, are in the end one and the same problem; and that the solution of one is the solution of the other. Analytic psychology (even if accepted far more enthusiastically than I can accept it) can do little except produce monsters; for it is attempting to produce unified individuals in a world without unity. The social, political, and economic sciences can do little, for they are attempting to produce the great society with an aggregation of human beings who are not units but merely bundles of incoherent impulses and beliefs. The problem of nationalism and the problem of dissociated personalities may turn out to be the same."

--TSE, "Religion Without Humanism" in Humanism and America


This is very interesting for several reasons, not the least of which is Eliot's own love for localism--his embrace of Anglicanism because he saw it as the Catholic Church in England. I can't imagine him wanting the unification of the individual and the unification of the world, unless of course, it was a sort of "multeity in unity" or something like that.