IV. Our Duty.

The attitude of all men and women towards their fellows should be regulated by the same motives as are displayed by God in his government; and we as constituting an association embodying the most approved means of benefiting our fellow-men, and therefore of serving God, hereby propose to undertake the following educational labours.

(a) To spread information of all kinds respecting the nature of man as a scientific fact organically, believing that much misapprehension and ignorance exists in this respect, producing bad and unphysiological habits of eating and drinking, neglect of sanitary laws, perversion of the social feelings, prodigality and poverty, resulting in vice, misery, crime, disease, and all that is low, gross, and incompatible with progress in every form. A knowledge of man's mental powers, emotions, and innate faculties should also be taught, which would introduce man to himself as a reality, would be a great educational triumph, and remove many gross superstitions respecting his nature, motives, and destiny.

(b) To investigate and teach the nature of man's soul, and its relations to the body and the future life, also the relations of the spirit world to this external sphere; accepting as scientific facts the elucidations afforded by clairvoyance, sensitives, seers, superior states, communications with the spirit world, and the developed intuitions of the human mind, knowing and believing that such faculties and means of communication do exist.