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SECTION XXIX. FINAL STATEMENT. 



CONCLUSION 34. 

 Need of Formulating a Final Statement. 



213. In an Interim Statement we embody the essence of 

 what we learn through observation, experiment, generalisation, 

 and verification. On the basis of this Conclusion, we proceed 

 to deduction of a theoretical and practical order. Having 

 accomplished this, we formulate the Final Statement which 

 strives to subsume the whole of the knowledge provided by 

 the enquiry, in order to avoid leaving the subject unsummarised 

 and in confusion. Substantially this Statement will be only 

 distinguishable from the Interim one by being richer on the 

 theoretical side and by simultaneously incorporating the practi- 

 cal teaching of our enquiry; and as we have found it con- 

 venient to adumbrate the Final Statement in Section XXV, 

 little remains beyond referring the reader to that Section. We 

 shall, therefore, confine ourselves to supplying an example. 



The story of mankind from earliest times to to-day, illustrat- 

 ing man's dependence' on pan-human thought and endeavour, 

 may be said to reveal the following laws of human life: 



A. Past, Present, and Future: 



(a) The law of the limitless accumulation and variation of 

 cultural or tool-made products, involving the subsidiary law 

 of the development of error and of cultural and social in- 

 equality ; 



(b} The law of the limitless perfecting of cultural or tool-made 

 products, involving the subsidiary law of the elimination of 

 error and of cultural and social inequality; 



(c) The law of the limitless growth of co-operation chrono- 

 logically and geographically, involving the subsidiary law of the 

 development and elimination of the spirit of excliisiveness ; 



(d) The law of the limitless perfectibility of the individual, 

 involving the subsidiary law of the development and elimina- 

 tion of individual imperfections. 



B. Future: 



(a) The fact of the virtually completed accumulation and 

 variation of cultural or tool-made products, involving the sub- 

 sidiary fact of the virtual cessation of the development of error 

 and of cultural and social inequality; 



(b) The fact of the virtually completed perfecting of cultural 

 or tool-made products, involving the subsidiary fact of the vir- 

 tually completed elimination of error and of cultural and social 

 inequality; 



(c) The fact of the virtually completed growth of co-operation 

 chronologically and geographically, involving the subsidiary 

 fact of the virtually completed elimination of the spirit of ex- 

 clusiveness ; 



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