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evil. It is much more effective to prevent a disease or cure it at an
early stage. Our obligation in future will be to educate the young
and train each child in the whole.
The soil has to be well prepared if it is expected to yield good
harvest and the same goes for people. The whole is a remedy to
save the society from evil. Life in the whole will bring about
respect, trust, and harmony among people; the number of
uneducated people will decrease and eventually disappear.
Thomas More’s Utopia and Plato’s Atlantis were fictional places
that represented ideal states. There has always been a desire for
something like that. Wise people throughout the world gave their
views on unity as the basis for social development.
There is no ideal state and it is impossible to have it in the
present conditions. Developed world communication and
relations of all kinds give a clear idea that More’s Utopia and
Plato’s Atlantis can only be achieved in the whole.
Rulers have ultimate power in the state structure of their
countries. They use various methods to prevent creation of the
whole, being afraid of losing their power.
The present crisis in the world proves that it is impossible to
expect continuous progress and development of parts of the
whole. The division of the whole leads to social inequality. A state
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