Greater.

Sir Roger on human duties ...

We have been taught that we must forgive and that and we have an obligation to forgive.  This doesn't come from any contract, it doesn't come from anything that we've undertaken.  It lies there in the nature of things and it's what is necessary, I think, if we are to live in the easygoing way that we hope for, but it does suggest that all human beings have a need for sacred things, a need for something which, as it were, cannot be spoiled, something which must be treasured and as which has an absolute authority and all our institutions in which our membership is a real value.  All these institutions in which membership is presupposed and rehearsed, are as a result of this endowed with a certain aura.  We are naturally beings that live in a sanctified or consecrated world.  We don't necessarily put it in that way, but we feel it whenever we encounter something which is calling upon us to be more than just the self-centered contract-making thing that we are in day-to-day life.  For instance all these things that are associated with your national membership, the flag, the oath, the parade, and so on, people, ordinary people, at least not obviously Princeton intellectuals, but ordinary people, when observing such a thing, their hair prickles and they stand to attention, maybe their eyes water, and so on.  This is a recognition that they're in the presence of something that cannot be spoiled, that is greater than them, and of which they are a part. I think this is something we feel also through our sense of beauty, which endows the whole world with an aura or can do.