These councils will eventually work in collaboration with each other so that their plans dovetail and cohere from the start, and no aspects of living… - Vera Stanley Alder

Secondly, we will build up a vision of what the future could be like if humanity so chooses — for “without vision the people perish”.

There are those who stand in the vanguard, those who huddle ineffectively in the centre, and those who definitely hold progress back.

The Council for Economics would be assisted by the Continental Council in mapping out a chart of the particular products which represented the especial gifts, capacities and qualities of any one nation. It would be recognized that each division of the community would have a contribution to make to the whole of which it alone would be capable, and that the individuality and life of a nation is an immortal quality engendered by the climatic conditions and subtle forces at work in its own land, and which the hand of man can never permanently deflect or destroy.