reasoned thinking. Once this attitude of criticism of un- 

 reasoned statements is attained throughout most of the 

 world, it will have become impossible for any kind of 

 dictatorship to gain control of people again. 



Although the best future minds can be expected to 

 enter the scientific field, because they will appreciate the 

 essential correctness of scientific thought, it is desirable to 

 encourage scientists in their work to discover the truth, 

 by giving them adequate recognition and reward for this 

 work. The world government could institute several differ- 

 ent honorary distinctions for award to scientists achieving 

 important advances in knowledge, which awards could be 

 made annually. For scientists whose work leads to great 

 economic benfits to Mankind, a system of financial re- 

 wards should be instituted as a recompense to researchers 

 who have devoted many years to producing the means 

 for new human wealth, usually at a financial disadvantage 

 to themselves. In addition to encouraging young scien- 

 tists to devote their lives to pure research, such a system 

 of material rewards would discourage individuals from 

 witholding, through patenting, their discoveries from appli- 

 cation for Mankind's general benefit. It should be made 

 impossible for any individual company to purchase a 

 patent from the inventor merely in order to prevent its 

 commercial use: the acquisition of patent rights should 

 imply an obligatory development of the idea patented 

 for general human use. 



In this book I have covered what seems to me to be 

 essentially all the topics which are of greatest concern 

 to Mankind at the present epoch in our advance into the 

 future centuries. I have endeavored to show that the most 

 important thing for Man is his evolutionary progress, 

 which means in essence his progress towards an ever 



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