ABSTRACT
The social goal of the democracy is the advancement and improvement of the people through a democratization of the advantages and opportunities of life. The most elemental phase of this social policy is conservation. This policy does not consider life solely from a quantitative standpoint. The demand for large populations is not democratic in origin. The basis of democratic strivings toward human conservation is an ethical belief in the sanctity of human life, and the desire for equality in this universal possession. A political democracy may be reactionary in its industrial and social policies, and the people may secure control both of the state and of industry without knowing enough to turn such control to their advantage. Not only is an extension of education indispensable to the maintenance of a socialized democracy, but it is precisely in a democracy that education is most necessary to a high national efficiency.
