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dex number of individual productivity corresponding to a reason- 

 able standard of life, and this will indubitably be followed by 

 successful endeavours to establish the educational, training, 

 workroom, and other conditions which shall yield this result. 

 Hence the inevitable intervention of science in industrial 

 affairs is bound to lead, among other things, to the realisation 

 of a tolerably high standard of universal well-being and to 

 a correspondingly high standard of average individual produc- 

 tivity. 



221. (D) PERFECTING AND SATISFYING HUMAN NA- 

 TURE AS A WHOLE. The chief subject-matter of the thirty- 

 six Conclusions is the application of thought to the improvement 

 of thought. Since, however, intellect constitutes only one aspect 

 of psychic reality, the supplementary step should be encouraged 

 to apply thought to the purification and ennobling of the per- 

 sonal, moral, and aesthetic feelings and to the strengthening 

 and steadying of the will and character. In other words, the 

 thirty-six Conclusions ought to be strenuously applied to the 

 perfecting and satisfying of human nature as a whole. If our 

 object in this treatise has been mainly to improve the intelli- 

 gence, it is because knowledge is not only the one element 

 which grows almost to infinity with the ages, but is, when 

 truly apprehended, human nature groping for the means to 

 satisfy and perfect itself. 



222. (E) SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS. The thirty-six 

 Conclusions may be thus epitomised for general purposes: 

 By habit and on principle intently, alertly, accurately, method- 

 ically, and rapidly observe, recollect, trace, generalise, deduce, 

 verify, apply, classify, define, and improve static and dynamic 

 facts separately and in combination, remaining always open- 

 minded. 



(1) By habit that is, always, unceasingly, spontaneously, as 

 a result of thorough training. 



(2) On principle consciously, unswervingly, courageously, 

 invariably. 



(3) Intently all the faculties continuously concentrated, stre- 

 nuously employed, avoiding over-confidence and over-anxiety. 



(4) Alertly allowing no fact to escape; unerringly noticing 

 exceptions and small items; all eyes and ears; keen; connect- 

 ing new with old and old with new. 



(5) Accurately habit of unerring accuracy; not overlooking, 

 exaggerating, understating, or mistaking anything. 



(6) Methodically developing every thought or suggestion 

 methodically, nothing material being slurred over and every- 

 thing material being embraced. 



(7) Rapidly with one means or instrument, with one single 

 bodily or mental movement, exerting just the necessary energy, 

 and with decided rapidity and pauselessness, to perform a 

 great many desired actions; not to hesitate unduly. 



