““For Wilde, the most perfect individual is anarchic and antisocial, obeying laws only of his own making. As in "The Critic as an artist", he dismisses action as a lower form of existence than contemplation. "Being" rather than "doing" is the goal towards which man should strive, and the ideal State should facilitate this. "The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is" (Anne Varty's Introduction)””
