The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-08-12
AN OBJECTIVE SCIENTIFIC
CRITERION ALONE CAN
GUARANTEE RIGHT ACTION

AT the mental science class of Llano
Colony. Sunday evening, August 5, a
comrade working in the propaganda
department stated that one problem al
ways presented to them is the query by
some prospective colonists as to what
guarantee the Colony can make to
them of an absolute security for their
investment and future well-being. They
seem to have no other motive or think
of nothing else except their own self
interest. They are obsessed, as it were.
by the ego-centric viewpoint. They are
unable to consider the Colony from an
impartial, impersonal viewpoint. If
they would accustom themselves to look
at every subject from the basis of prin-
clple, from the knowledge acquired and
available concerning it, in the case of
the Colony from the standpoint of the
principle of reciprocity, Of mutual re-
sponsibility for its observance, such
would realize that. in large measure,
they must assume and share in guaran-
teelng their own future felicity and sup
port by their own mutual service to the
Colony group, of which they become
a component part. Those who fail to
realize this aspect of altruistic Colony
cooperation have not as yet reached
the degree Of maturity in consciousness
to fit them for this plane of fellow
ship.
Llano Colony proposes to make the
network and sum of actual science
gathered during the ages (wo4ld know
Iedge) the basis of its activities and
INTERPRETATION between its members. The
question of each individual member is
not to be what it can get out of it, -
but what it can do for it, what it can
put into it; for the Colony as an inst-
tuition can supply each member only in
accordance to the supplies that the
members provide thru the agency of
productive human labor, and no one is
entitled to share in the BLESSINGS result
ing from such labor except as they con-
tribute a corresponding share, unless
incapacitated in any legitimate way for
Its performance.
IF some risk, some hardship. some
privations are involved in establishing
= community that aims to observe the
Golden Rule and the principle of reci-
procity in every relation of the mem-
bership, why should any one who cares
to join be excused from any of its re-
sponsibiEties2 Nothing new was ever
inaugurated and firmly established in
this world without stubborn persistence
in the face of often seemingly insur-
mountable obstacles and interference
from mischievous. meddlers and self
seeking cyclists and notoriety hunters
who seek to exploit the new venture for
their own self-aggrandisement.
When the right methods of such a
venture have once been experimentally
demonstrated and indicated, they will
appeal to the more backward element
of the population. but until that is ac-
complished. the pioneer group must
consist of Gideon-like pioneers who to
some extent appreciate the difficulties
to be confronted. but are undauntedly
ready to risk and dare everything for
the sake of truth and right.
All knowledge comes into the world
by cosmic growth in the same way as
our knowledge of gradually perfected
machine THRU EXPERIMENTATION,
the wise inventor showing the right
way, the foolish inventors the wrong
way; even so in the evolution of moral
ity, justice, democracy, we must realize
that the wicked and foolish play their
parts in the process Showing the con-
duct to avoid) as we'll as the wise and
good. Retaliation and vindictiveness
is entirely out of place in dealing with
wrongdoers. Self-protection may justl-
fy proper restraints to be placed upon
them, but infinite patience and com
passion should be cultivated in dealing
with them. And the same respect for
their natural rights must be observed
that we expect and claim for ourselves.
If people. for lack Of knowledge, are
not qualified for certain position, we
cannot justly condemn them for this
deficiency if they never had the oppor-
tunity or aptitude for its requirement.
In the same way if people have not yet
developed the characteristics that
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