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Man needs a belief in something above himself but still of this world. This need is best placed in the goodness of civilization or in the progress of humankind. No man is entirely self-sufficient. For the full life he must rely upon others. Recognition of this reliance upon others, for highest fulfillment of each person’s vital needs, would go a long way in creating a true aura of neighborly love throughout the world.

In this new world, people should not become beseechers of a Great Spirit to provide them with those things wished for. Instead, in the Pleneurethical world, all people are givers and determine how best to give of themselves to the benefit of enlightened civilization.

Pleneurethics aims its program for improvement of civilization at people—not institutions. As the people uplift their ethical comprehension, errant institutions will spontaneously flex into proper alignment with the flow of the new times.

Correction of social abuses should not include a program designed to destroy errant institutions. This would never accomplish anything. The new institutional order might easily be more off-center than that which is replaced. Indeed, thoughtless destruction of present institutions might produce incalculable harm. The reason such institutions are improper is simply a reflection of impropriety among the people at large and thoughtless destruction of old institutions representing even greater impropriety.

Pleneurethics would retain all institutions as they are and simply let them down by the wayside as an enlightened civilization advances toward its destiny. Present institutional structures simply reflect the state of the times. Pleneurethics would never level attack directly on an institution. Rather, Pleneurethics encourages the
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individual men and women who constitute civilization to redress themselves in better ethical raiment. Once people have improved their ethical posture, structure of institutions will shift effortlessly in sympathy with the new structure of civilization.

In the new civilization armies will still be maintained, but their mission will be mercy, not mayhem. They will combat natural disasters and build defenses against the occasional brutal offenses of nature. They will descend when needed upon the earthquake or forest fire disaster area to remedy the cruel aggression of nature.

There will be a ministry of ethics, not of theology. This ministry will teach in the name of all civilization, not preach in the name of some regional god or tiny section of civilization. This new ministry will not build churches, but will carry the scepter of ethics to men, women, and children of the world that they may refine their own inner temple of moral nobility.

There will be schools, but practice will come along with theory. The practical classrooms will consist of the hospitals, the homes for the aged, the neighborhood bakery, the farms, the mines, the foundries, the factories, the building construction sites, and the banks where funds are accumulated and dispensed to pay the cost of construction.

There will be teachers, but they will not be intellectuals. Rather, they will be competent, working people who teach the art of their trade, the principles of the trade, and the knowledge required to carry out successfully their trade or profession.

Students will not compete individually to receive the highest grade. Rather, the students will gather together in teams. The team will work on a project of continuing benefit to civilization. Students will rotate among the teams as they progress through the curriculum of the school. There will be no graduation. The student may drop out to assume a position in society or re-enter at will should he or she wish to continue training in another field.

Pleneurethics will exert a beneficial leveling force as it generally facilitates the advance of the wheel of civilization. Gone will be
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the minister who thinks because of his special covenant with a Super-God, he is therefore above the common people and can dictate to them. Gone will be the impractical intellectual who thinks that because of his advanced degree, he is therefore above the masses. Gone will be the politician who, after successful election, ignores the people.Gone will be the member of the select in-group who thinks that because of his select affiliation, he is therefore above the working people. In the Pleneurethical civilization all people will be working people who strive to help themselves second by helping the thrust of total civilization’s advancement first.

People need not fear any God, but should fear instead the wrath of their peers lest their selfish conduct anger them. People will seek not the love of a God, but instead they will covet the good will of those citizens of civilization who are enlightened, for surely through them will life on earth be exalted.

In Pleneurethics people pray not to a mysterious spiritual father, but instead consider the eternal need of their civilized world. By serving the real needs of such a society, the individual best serves himself and his immediate loved ones. Civilization, indeed, is both man’s savior and his executioner.

There are those who might object to the placement of the wheel of civilization above the individual. For such people, they might visualize civilized society as being helpfully disposed about them. This society serves as a hospitable buffer that shields them against stern realities and the cutting edge of an untamed universe as they move forward at the hub. Such a civilization serves the individual by providing necessities for a comfortable life that an individual by his own work alone might never enjoy.

In Pleneurethics there is an invisible force which is Supreme and above all else. But it is not a Christian God who makes special covenants, who listens to biased prayer, who takes vengeance against the heathens and pagans and infidels, or who calls Himself He the better to lower the status of womankind. There is a Supreme Force in Pleneurethics, but it offers no special dispensation, nor does it take note of man’s race or religion. For this Supreme Force
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is above religion. People have free will and can dictate to themselves.

In Pleneurethics this Supreme Force is that which is behind the system of Eternal Law that forms the cosmos. It swings the galaxies deftly through majestic orbit. It is in this matrix that man and other life-styles are formed.

In Pleneurethics people pray not for gifts from a theological heaven, but rather they bend every energy at their command in search for true wisdom and the ethical life among all else that lives.

There is a shattering and schism-making difference between the personalized, covenant-making Christian God and the Universal Force of Pleneurethics. The Pleneurethical Absolute is neither male nor female, but it transcends both. This is in contra-distinction to the Christian God who is called He.

The Pleneurethical Absolute is for those who look at others and see goodness instead of depravity, and for those who are willing to accept full responsibility for their own proper conduct among other men and women. It is also for those who see all humanity as level, with none having particular preference over another—except for those who are infantile, sick, or diminished by adversity.

A covenant with some god or other is unnecessary to fulfill the highest destiny. Nor is conversion to any particular deity a prerequisite to greatness or fruitful perseverance in the face of calamity. All that is required for achievement is that people assume responsibility for meritorious performance and commence their application of effort. Each person has a reserve of greatness. This bounty may be touched by earnest endeavor. Almost any person can rise to meet most any occasion if he or she will but try.

Liberation of an abused and battered mankind is at hand. The method for this release is clear. Pleneurethics has met the challenge presented by a suffering world and has illuminated the way.

When all men of all nations achieve self-enlightenment and self-mastery under the universal principle of Pleneurethics, a new
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era will come upon the earth. Unifications of civilizations across the jittery expanse of a war-torn and needy world will end a dark period of history.