404 PART V. WORKING STAGE. 



(d) The fact of the virtually attained perfection of the indivi- 

 dual, involving the subsidiary fact of the virtual cessation of 

 the existence and development of individual imperfections. 



C. Present: 



(a) The resolve and striving to increase the accumulation and 

 variation of cultural or tool-made products, and to discourage 

 the development of error and of cultural and social inequality ; 



(6) The resolve and striving to perfect cultural or tool-made 

 products, and to eliminate error and cultural and social inequality ; 



(c) The resolve and striving to increase the growth of co- 

 operation chronologically and geographically, and to eliminate 

 the spirit of exclusiveness ; 



(d) The resolve and striving to perfect the individual, and 

 to eliminate individual imperfections. 



D. Finally, this dependence of man, and man alone, on 

 pan-species thought and endeavour, may be said to be due to 

 the fact that man, and man alone, has reached the stage in the 

 general evolution of the intelligence (just beyond the higher 

 apes) where the thoughts of others can be freely assimilated, 

 this leading, in turn, to his native outfit coming to be adapted 

 to cultural instead of to natural selection and living, and this, 

 again, to men's dependence on pan-human thought and endeav- 

 our. On the practical side this involves the virtually complete 

 dependence of the individual on mankind as a whole for the 

 adequate satisfaction of his nature, and the shaping of the in- 

 dividual and group life on this presumption. 



SECTION XXX. REPORT STAGE. 



V 



CONCLUSION 35. 



Need of Being Concise, of Carefully Summarising, and of Writing 



Acceptably. 



214. (A) CONCISENESS. In the course of an enquiry, we 

 should endeavour to crowd into a sentence or a few sentences 

 each result obtained. It is advisable to proceed similarly when 

 preparing the publication of the conclusions, for, in the latter 

 circumstance also, the pithiest form of statement consistent with 

 perspicuity is, for many reasons, expedient. 



215. (B) SUMMARISING. Following Bacon, we should 

 strive to compress the final result in a concisely worded formula 

 or set of formulae. Such a form of epitomising is in harmony 

 with the process delineated in 111, and is attempted in Con- 

 clusion 34. Concise summaries of each chapter, of each part of 

 a volume, and a good table of contents and index, are desirable. 



216. WRITING ACCEPTABLY. Much labour needs to be 

 consecrated to the ultimate grouping which should present the 

 conclusions in a brief, connected, luminous, and convincing form. 



