These are reflected in the chronic conflicts within his party as well as within his government. Nehru goes much faster than it is possible for his men to catch up. His ideas rush upon him more impetuously than he can himself handle them. Before one innovation is absorbed in the system he embarks on another. There is thus division over his policy as much in his own mind as in his own camp, converting the country into a splendid wreckage of indefinable outlooks and unrealizable dreams. All this is the natural consequence of his trying at all costs to be in every respect the latest of the twentieth century and to leave everyone else at the scornful distance of the nineteenth. All this is a fitful attempt to fit oneself into a situation for which one is an intrinsic misfit.