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III. Efficient consumption, interpreted in terms of produc- 

 tion (Carver), of surplus energy (Patten) or of social well-being; 



IV. Education for social efficiency which will include 



(a) recognition of the family as the educational as well as 

 sociological unit; 



(b) the acquirement of such knowledge, skill and training on 

 the part of each individual as will fit him best for the place he can 

 best fill in the industrial system or in the supply of human needs, 

 with such direction and encouragement as will tend to relative 

 equality of income because of relative equality in social service 

 rendered; 



(c) the acquirement of such knowledge and training as will 

 result in social adaptation and co-operation; 



(d) the development of personality and individuality with 

 self-control, self-direction and prophetic vision to see the line of 

 action that will make for individual and social well-being; 



(e) the attainment of that religious insight and experience 

 which will link the human life with the Eternal Source of life, 

 thus making for increased energy and social unity; 



(/) the above elements unified and energized with the educa- 

 tional ideals of adaptation and social exemplifaction. 



V. Social Control 



(a) to secure efficient race-stock and to regulate population; 



(b) to deal with the anti-social and the social laggards; 



(c} to prevent that competition which experience shows to be 

 uneconomic or detrimental to well-being; 



(d) to encourage such co-operation as promises to be socially 

 advantageous, and 



(e) to secure a more just distribution of wealth. 1 



The individual who would succeed in life must adapt himself to 

 his environment, physical and spiritual; but most to be envied 

 is the one who can exert the greatest influence on his fellow-men 

 in the line of the increased well-being of all humanity, himself 

 included. 



1 Cf . the program for a constructive democracy formulated by Professor Carver, 

 Essays in Social Justice, pp. 264, 265. 



