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the highest standards of mental, moral, and not least spiritual 

 equipment. From these again can be chosen the highest types 

 of mind that can lead wisely and well in the two most impor- 

 tant lines of human progress — education in its widest sense, 

 and legislation. 



But scientific research and discovery will be equally bene- 

 fited. For the keenest minds that show alike analytic and 

 synthetic capacity of a high grade will be advanced step by 

 step into departments suited to their special lines of study 

 and their mental bias. 



Above all the highest and most consecrated religious spirits 

 will be fostered, and will be at the same time unfettered by 

 dogma, by sectarian rancor, by priestly pride and exclusive- 

 ness. So the simple clear and elevating doctrines of Christ 

 and of Paul; the still older and suggestive views of Zarathush- 

 tra, Plato, and Aristotle; the as yet unexplained phenomena 

 of mind contact at a distance; the still doubtful phenomena 

 of spiritualism; the means by which spiritic energy can be 

 increased, distributed, and made helpful for each individual; 

 the action of this energy in binding together groups, com- 

 munities, towns, and states so that these may unite in highest 

 effort for the social well-being, will all be investigated and 

 advanced in a careful and generous scientific spirit. 



Again, since society will thus be built up as a social organ- 

 ism, on the principle that every cell or individual unit in an 

 organism requires careful adjustment and representation in 

 the whole, so the already fairly perfected Swiss system of 

 the Initiative and the Referendum will be still further adjusted, 

 so that each individual will feel that he or she directly aids 

 in buildmg up the social whole. Whatever defects occur in 

 that whole will then be felt to be due to regrettable but cumu- 

 lative individual action that the individuals must in turn 

 review and change. A civic and state pride — as well as an 

 individual — would then be generated that would greatly excel 

 any that the world has hitherto witnessed. For, while the 

 law of proenvironment has silently worked during the past 

 evolutionary century with greatly increased force, as compared 



