Working together will be one of its fundamental ideas, of men with 

 God, of men with prophets, leaders, and teachers, of men with one another, 

 of men's intelligence with the forces of nature. It will teach only such uses 

 of authority as are necessary to secure cooperation of several or many peo- 

 ple to one end ; and the discipline it will advocate will be training in the devel- 

 opment of cooperative good will. ELIOT, ff Religion of the Future," p. 22 



Physical forces or the exhaustion of purely physical resources never have, 

 and for at least five million years in the future, so the astronomers tell us, 

 cannot extinguish human civilizations. Floods or volcanic eruptions may 

 cause small and local effects ; while biological forces are oceanic, subtile, all- 

 pervasive, continuously active, ever ready, whenever a break in the vital 

 defenses of knowledge occurs, to surge in and obliterate individual, nation, 

 civilization. Even the great movements of human races, conquests and wars, 

 are not so all-annihilating in their effects as the ceaseless struggle of man- 

 kind against other living species. Disease, pestilence, plague, and famine 

 have taken their millions to war its scores. 



These forces are so powerful, so vast in their sweep, that for one individ- 

 ual to attempt to cope with them is like Mrs. Partington trying to sweep 

 back the ocean with her broom. Our education must be so organized that 

 each may know and do his part. 



It is not labor, not capital, not land, that has created modern wealth or 

 is creating it to-day. It is ideas that create wealth, and what is wanted is 

 more ideas more uncovering of natural reservoirs, and less labor and 

 capital and land per unit of production. . . . 



Muscular effort can be stimulated by the lash intelligent supervision, 

 intellectual production, never ! One single idea may have greater value than 

 all the labor of all the men, animals, and engines for a century. The age of 

 muscular human effort and of the lash is passing away, and the old morality 

 with it : the age of supervision, of cooperative stimulus, is in full advance ; 

 and with it comes a new morality, under which the Golden Rule can be ex- 

 tended from the relations between individuals to those between classes, 

 nationalities, and races. EMERSON, "Twelve Principles of Efficiency," 

 pp. x and xi 



