The second world that he alludes to is the next purpose. Like the Scholar Gypsy’s purpose of unity, this purpose could retrieve the serenity of the past.  Yet, he does not share Mill’s hope.   Arnold describes Mill and Browning’s proposal of social progress through active and free individuals as, “this strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry [and] its divided aims….”  John Stuart Mill believed that if the individual is fed and fertilized with freedom, then the individual, like an orchard, would flourish, branching out and bearing fruits to the society that has valued him or her.  For him, social institutions only served as barriers to the universal human aspiration:  progress.  Robert Browning agreed with Mill’s assertion that the individual must be free of social constraints, so the Fra Lippi Lippo’s of the world can enlighten society; on the other hand, he agreed with Matthew Arnold’s bleak prognosis of excessive individualism.  Arnold foresaw and lamented a chaotic world, wherein the removal of tradition and culture would leave the individual alienated from the rest of society.