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For You Deal Here Above All With Human Life, And Human Life Is Sacred; No One May Dare Make An Attempt Upon It. Respect For Life, Even With Regard To The Great Problem Of The Birth Rate, Must Find Here In Your Assembly Its Highest Affirmation And Its Most Rational Defense. Your Task Is To Ensure That There Is Enough Bread On The Tables Of Mankind, And Not To Encourage An Artificial Control Of Births, Which Would Be Irrational, In Order To Diminish The Number Of Guests At The Banquet Of Life.

After Long Centuries, Agrarian Civilization Is Weakening. Is Sufficient Attention Being Devoted To The Arrangement And Improvement Of The Life Of The Country People, Whose Inferior And At Times Miserable Economic Situation Provokes The Flight To The Unhappy Crowded Conditions Of The City Outskirts, Where Neither Employment Nor Housing Awaits Them?

All Life Demands Struggle. Those Who Have Everything Given To Them Become Lazy, Selfish, And Insensitive To The Real Values Of Life. The Very Striving And Hard Work That We So Constantly Try To Avoid Is The Major Building Block In The Person We Are Today.

Never Give Advice In A Crowd.

Man Is Suddenly Becoming Aware That By An Ill-considered Exploitation Of Nature He Risks Destroying It And Becoming In His Turn The Victim Of This Degradation. Not Only Is The Material Environment Becoming A Permanent Menace - Pollution And Refuse, New Illness And Absolute Destructive Capacity - But The Human Framework Is No Longer Under Man's Control, Thus Creating An Environment For Tomorrow Which May Well Be Intolerable. This Is A Wide-ranging Social Problem Which Concerns The Entire Human Family.