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The main point is that human welfare is a compound of achievement in each of these divisions and subdivisions of effort, and that no estimate of a social situation is complete that leaves any portion of either division of achievement out of the account.

It is thus assumed that the whole exhibit presents a series of problems of proportion and correlation. No claim is made that the conspectus is itself a sufficient correlation of the topics sug- gested. They are presented merely as a tentative catalogue, as a preliminary survey, not as a theory of relative values.

CONSPECTUS OF THE SOCIAL SITUATION

AS GIVEN IN THE PRESENT STATE OF ACHIEVEMENT AND IN UNSOLVED

TECHNICAL PROBLEMS.

GRAND DIVISIONS.

I. ACHIEVEMENT IN PROMOTING HEALTH. II. ACHIEVEMENT IN PRODUCING WEALTH.

III. ACHIEVEMENT IN HARMONIZING HUMAN RELATIONS.

IV. ACHIEVEMENT IN DISCOVERY AND SPREAD OF KNOWLEDGE. V. ACHIEVEMENT IN THE FINE ARTS.

VI. ACHIEVEMENT IN RELIGION.

DIVISION I. ACHIEVEMENT IN PROMOTING HEALTH.

1. Public sanitation and hygiene, including systems of quarantine, isola- tion and colonization (for lepers, epileptics, etc.).

2. Preventive and curative medicine and surgery, including the apparatus of hospitals, dispensaries, ambulances, " first aid " instruction to police, etc.

3. Safeguards against accidents and protection in dangerous occupations.

4. Fire and police protection in general.

5. Development of dietetics and prevention of adulteration of food.

6. Protection against disease germs in food.

7. Improved dwellings and workshops.

8. Topographical arrangements pf cities, especially extension of workmen's dwellings into suburbs.

9. Water, light, and transportation supply.

10. Parks, playgrounds, sewerage, baths, outings.

11. Promotion of temperance.

12. Control of sexual vice, and treatment of its consequences.

13. Shortening the labor day.

14. Dress reform.