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demands of growth and to the discovery, or invention, 

 of more equitable and more economic methods of con- 

 veying physical and spiritual commodities to the 

 sources of these demands. 



To give this new Leviathan of social life its neces- 

 sary spiritual cohesion and mental stability, man must 

 clearly recognize this basic growth purpose in social 

 life, and the constructive value of these social functions 

 to that end. 



Formal agreements, or covenants, must therefore 

 be entered into, covering the principal functional 

 phases of world life, elementary in character they may 

 well be, yet nevertheless explicitly recognizing the 

 mutual rights and mutual obligations of the partners 

 to the agreement, and the common purpose to be 

 achieved by them. Chief and foremost among them, 

 should be formal covenants between the citizen and 

 the state ; between the state and its institutions, and be- 

 tween the state and its sister states. 



This will be man's work for the immediate future. 

 It will demand something other than mere territorial, 

 or numerical representation; something more than the 

 shallow diplomacy of the "practical politician" or the 

 makeshift wits of the middle man in statesmanship. It 

 will call for the services of socially minded delegates 

 from all the great vital functions of social life ; dele- 

 gates who derive their authority from their functional 

 colleagues, .and who are appointed by them to define 

 their respective interests and purposes. 



Such delegates can best foresee the requirements of 

 those they represent, and the creative possibilities of 

 their own social services. It should be their duty form- 

 ally to demand the social rights of their constituents, 



