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Do you make those about you more, or less, talkative, serious, frank, pure in 

 speech and thought, earnest, broad-minded, charitable, unselfish, ambitious, 

 thoughtful of others ? Are you by nature or by training socially minded ? Do 

 you feel constantly your responsibility for others ? Do you find yourself living 

 chiefly in your social obligations ? Do you feel dependent upon others ? To 

 what extent ? Is your personal ideal individual success and happiness, or social 

 usefulness ? Are your mental traits, education, and character such as to fit you 

 to lead society to better modes of thinking and living ? Is your sense of respon- 

 sibility equally great for yourself, your family, your unborn children, your race ? 

 Should it be ? 



What role do you feel that you should play in human society: that of leader, 

 reformer, social philosopher, follower, conservative, recluse ? 



(c) Moral and religious tendencies. Are you moral or religious by nature ? 

 By training ? Of course, you may be either, both or neither. What bearing 

 have your moral principles or code upon your social relations ? Do they force 

 you to avoid social relations; to seek certain social groups; to strive for a wide 

 personal influence ? Do your religious beliefs impel you to enlighten, convert, 

 " save " others ? Are your morals strictly individual, or do you consider them 

 applicable to every human being ? To all persons of your age and sex ? To 

 all persons in your state of civilization ? To all, with your education ? Do you 

 similarly regard your religious beliefs as strictly individual ? Do you hesitate 

 to state them to others because you do not wish to influence them ? 



(d) Vocation or vocational abilities. Have you chosen your vocation, or do 

 you propose to do so, from social motives ? In order that you may help others 

 or yourself ? Do you look upon your life work as a means or an end ? Is 

 your vocation favorable to family life ? To the rearing of children ? To their 

 education ? Is it favorable to social activity in the broad sense ? Are you 

 planning to give yourself to your children, — not merely what your earnings 

 can buy for them ? 



