solved by Good Will alone. Good Will without knowledge is Warmth
without Light. Especially in all the complexities of politics, in the
still undeveloped Science of Society, the Labour Party stands for in-
creased study, for the scientific investigation of each succeeding prob-
lem, for the deliberate organization of research, and for a much more
rapid dissemination among the whole people of all the science that
exists. And it is perhaps specially the Labour Party that has the
duty of placing this Advancement of science in the forefront of
its political programme. What the Labour Party stands for in all
fields of life is, essentially, Democratic Co-operation; and Co-opera-
tion involves a common purpose which can be agreed to; a common
plan which can be explained and discussed, and such a measure of
success in the adaptation of means to ends as will ensure a common
satisfaction. An autocratic Sultan may govern without science if his
whim is law. A Plutocratic Party may choose to ignore science, if it
is heedless whether its pretended solutions of social problems that
may win political triumphs ultimately succeed or fail. But no La-
bour Party can hope to maintain its position unless its proposals are,
in fact, the outcome of the best Political Science of its time; or to
fulfil its purpose unless that science is continually wresting new fields
from human ignorance. Hence, although the purpose of the Labour
Party must, by the law of its being, remain for all time unchanged,
its Policy and its Programme will, we hope, undergo a perpetual
development, as knowledge grows, and as new phases of the social
problem present themselves, in a continually finer adjustment of our
measures to our ends. If Law is the Mother of Freedom, Science,
to the Labour Party, must be the Parent of Law.

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