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and the social order, and the one most widely honored in
practice, is that the school should conserve the existing social
order. This culture was won only at a great cost of time and
suffering. Confronted with the enigmas of life, mankind has only
laboriously and at great sacrifice accumulated a stock of
solutions. It would, obviously, be a great pity if any of these
were to be lost through the school; there is no way to shorten
the period of trial and error which is incident and precedent to
social progress.