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generally; travel' and leisure pursuits or hobbies; and delight 

 in intimate converse with one's fellows and with nature, issu- 

 ing in 



9. Art generally, and the eventual penetration and beautifying 

 of all spheres of life by the love and the realisation of the 

 beautiful. 



In life's turmoil, body and mind are apt to lose their equi- 

 poise. Hence : 



10. Medicine and Hygiene (sanitation, diet, recreation, birth, 

 illness, burial), leading to the triumphs of surgery and sanitation, 

 of preventive medicine of the body and of the mind, and of 

 hygiene, and finally to hygienic living, and a race sturdy in 

 mind and body. 



The attitude towards the master problems of life and towards 

 the Universe should be also defined. Hence: 



11. Religion later, with priests, temples, and religious houses 

 and organisations (philosophy of life and existence, nature, 

 fabled under- and over-world, death and all great occasions of 

 life, holy days, and supposed mysterious influences), developing 

 from almost pure superstition to almost a pure humanism 

 grounded on a scientifically based philosophy of life, and leading 

 also to 



12. Philosophising, or speculative thought, because of lack 

 and confusion of data; thence to gradual evolution of 



13. Science, theoretical and applied, specialised and cosmic, 

 and growingly reasoned love of goodness, nature, art, health, 

 strenuousness, and joy. 



A classification such as the above subserves various ends: 



(a) It aids in focusing a complicated issue having innumer- 

 able minor aspects; 



(b) It presents a conspectus of the main facts; 



(c) It demonstrates the truth of progress; 



(d) It shows this progress commencing almost at a zero point ; 

 developing slowly through the ages to a remarkably high degree ; 

 and promising to evolve further, along old and new lines; 



(e) It implies that culture is the outcome of pan-species 

 thought, and that the individual contributes only an infini- 

 tesimal proportion of the total culture; 



(/) Moreover, the process of the education of children, of 

 adults, and of peoples, involves that culture is post-natally 

 acquired. 



(g\ (h), etc., etc. 



Eighth Stage. Final Statement. 1 



99. Lest the enquiry should degenerate into a confusion 

 of detail, we strive to embody the total results in a single 

 formula, theoretical and practical. This formula may be con- 



1 See Conclusion 34. 



