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Exercises are designed to advance the development of a person in a way that encourages that person's subsequent contribution to the development of the peoples of this world. And here again, simultaneity is at work. In that personal development, society is developing too. But it is also true that the Exercises are a "school" which produces persons committed to subsequent service of God in man. Without such commitment, society will collapse. In this age of privatization (the negative view) and inwardness (the positive side!), those who steward the wealth of Ignatian spirituality have a good opportunity to increase "enrollments" in their school while retaining high admissions standards. They will thus make significant contributions to the manifold needs of the Church's social apostolate. And this micro-rather than macro-approach to the social significance of Ignatian spirituality should not be too surprising. For, as the depth psychologist Carl Jung has written in The Undiscovered Self, "It is unfortunately only too clear that if the individual is not truly regenerated in spirit, society cannot be either, for society is the sum of individuals in need of redemption." (Boston: Little, Brown, 1957, p. 56) Such regeneration is the apostolate of the Exercises. The antecedent agenda for those committed to this spiritual apostolate involves the identification, invitation and motivation of those individuals who can do most to regenerate society.