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elusive application of rules of conduct of the type mentioned 

 in paragraph 10 below. 



Other deductions are: 



(c) home education, like school education, should have its 

 roots in science; 



(rf) the relationship between the two partners in marriage 

 should, besides love, manifest mutual understanding, respect, 

 forbearance, assistance, and companionship, and be illumined 

 by science; 



(e) vocations should be grounded in science and should be 

 scientifically acquired and pursued, and the love of good 

 workmanship and of incessant improvement should displace 

 thoughtlessness and the love of routine; 



(/) the public services which are visibly growing in im- 

 portance year by year should be re-organised, root and branch, 

 on a scientific and, inferentially, democratic basis; 



(g) speculative thought should be discouraged, except where 

 it ensues on carefully ascertained facts; 



(h) the best thought being a product of the slow growth of 

 culture, the utmost should be attempted to discover and 

 inculcate the soundest rules for the conduct of the human 

 understanding ; and 



(/) whilst it is true that without appetites, impulses, and 

 organs, action is impossible, it is knowledge alone which creates 

 man's superiority, even in respect of generating breadth and 

 depth of feeling, and a puissant and unshakeable will. 



5. Co-operation. If science is indispensable in every depart- 

 ment of life, co-operation is no less necessary, for since cul- 

 ture is a species-product, this implies that there can be no 

 science without the widest co-operation, and that all that 

 humanity has achieved has been through co-operation. Con- 

 sequently, co-operation is a requisite in every department of 

 thought and action, in the humblest as in the highest spheres, 

 in vocational, social, national, and international affairs, in the 

 inner life of the individual, and between generation and gene- 

 ration. Hence : 



(a) Co-operation in science and in the economic life, and 

 thoroughly democratic and democratically organised govern- 

 ments and institutions, are requirements; 



6) Modesty, broadmindedness, appreciation of other persons 

 and peoples, and readiness to learn and serve, as well as 

 virility, originality, initiative, enterprise, and the fixed resolve 

 to add a full quota to the achievements of others, should stamp 

 all individuals and groups of individuals; 



(c) Since social conditions, according to this trend, represent 

 the most potent incentives and impediments to the growth of 

 culture in any community, they demand the closest collective 

 attention more especially they require sanitation and education, 

 the humanisation of the law, democratic rule, friendship among 



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