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ual — man, lower animal or plant. The social arts are in reality one art. 

 They are the art of employing all other arts in the realization of an 

 ideal social conception. This art might also be called education, since 

 we speak of the education of the race as well as the education of the 

 individual. It might be called government, if that word were not 

 vitiated by its associations. Professor Lester F. Ward employs the 

 word sociocracy. " This general social art," he says, " the scientific 

 control of the social forces by the collective mind of society for its 

 advantage, in strict homology with the practical arts of the industrial 

 world, is what I have hitherto given the name Sociocracy."* Call it 

 what we may, this social art is the highest of all the arts. Its end is 

 a perfected humanity. In realizing this end it utilizes all other arts. 

 It is the art of arts. Its application requires the maximum of intelli- 

 gence and skill. Its potentialities are as yet undreamed of. 



The main divisions and subdivisions of the arts having now been 

 passed briefly in review, it will be helpful to bring them together in 

 tabular form. They will stand as follows: 



Art 



1. Physical 



2. Vital 



J Manufacture 

 \ Machinofacture 



Botanical 

 Zoological 



f Handicrafts. 



\ Mechanical occupations. 



! 



3. Social -{ Sociocracy. 



Agriculture. 



Horticulture, etc. 

 f Domestication, breeding and training. 

 \ Education. 



*' Outlines of Sociology,' New York, 1898, p. 292. 



