228 PAR T 1 V.PREPARA TORY STAGE. 



With the family should be correlated its environment, con- 

 sisting of 



(a) Human Neighbours (from individual to clan, tribe, and to 

 all peoples, including travel, residence, and study abroad), Ac- 

 quaintances and Friends, also Voluntary Associations for local 

 and specialist purposes to International and Inter-Specialist 

 Organisations ; 



(6) Animal Neighbours (wild animals useful, useless, and 

 dangerous to man, domesticated animals, and animals as pets, 

 friends, and fellow-beings); 



(c) Plant Neighbours (wild plants useful, useless, and danger- 

 ous to man and to agriculture, frugiculture, horticulture, and 

 arboriculture) ; 



(d) Inanimate Neighbours (soil, air, water, sky, etc., to na- 

 tural and transformed materials and forces utilised by man). 



The product of family life, the child and adolescent, must 

 receive some kind of education, for men's abilities are derived 

 first and foremost from learning, that is, from education and 

 from tradition 1 ; hence: 



2. Education of children ; acquisition of vocation ; later, histori- 

 cally, schools to universities, and life-long study and research. 



With the family should be connected the 



3. Community. More or less loosely organised families in 

 small hordes: later, clan; later still, growing and co-operating 

 territorial groups of mostly unrelated families, until Continent 

 State and World State are reached. 



And with the community should be correlated: 



4. Governments (through occasional Chieftain to Imperial 

 Dynasty and to democratically elected President, and from 

 Headman to Nobility and to a pure educated Democracy), dis- 

 placing customs more and more (legislative, legal, administrative, 

 productive, protective, and aggressive features of Government), 

 to Parliament of Nations, International Court of Justice, Inter- 

 national State Services, and Universal Official Bureaus of Labour, 

 Communications, Motive Power, Science, Art, etc. 



The attitude towards others in the community should be well 

 defined; hence: 



5. Customs (manner of living; then also manners; and, at 

 first, customs as general method of preserving past acquisitions) ; 

 from manners based on customs, finally, through intermediate 

 stages, to 



(a) Love of humanity as the supreme standard of conduct 



1 Professor F. H. Giddings thus sums up the various classes of traditions : 

 "The primary traditions are: the economic, or the tradition of utilisation; 

 the juridical, or the tradition of toleration; and the political, or the tradition 

 of alliance, homage, and obedience. . . . The secondary traditions are: the 

 animistic or personal, the Besthetic, and the religious. . . . The tertiary tradi- 

 tions are: the theological, the metaphysical, and the scientific." (The Prin- 

 ciples of Sociology, 1896, p. 141.) 



