“The Golden Rule”: although this is looked upon by Christians as Christian 
    and is found in the New and Old Testaments, many other races and peoples 
    spoke of it. It also appears in the Analects of Confucius (fifth and sixth 
    centuries B.C.) who, himself, quoted from more ancient works. It is also 
    found in “primitive” tribes. In one form or another it appears in the 
    ancient works of Plato, Aristotle, Isocrates and Seneca. For thousands of 
    years it has been held by man as a standard of ethical conduct. The versions 
    given in this booklet are newly worded, however, as in earlier wordings it 
    was thought to be too idealistic to be kept. It is possible to keep this 
    version. 
    A 
    adamant: hard; not giving in; unyielding; something which won’t break; 
    insistent; refusing any other opinion; surrendering to nothing. 
    aristocracy: government by a few with special privileges, ranks or 
    positions; rule by an elite few who are above the general law; a group who 
    by birth or position are “superior to everybody else” and who can make or 
    apply laws to others but consider that they themselves are not affected by 
    the laws. 
    B 
    boors: persons with rude, clumsy manners and little refinement. 
    C 
    chaotic: having the character or nature of total disorder or confusion. 
    competent: able to do well those things one does; capable; skilled in doing 
    what one does; measuring up to the demands of one’s activities. 
    compromise: a settlement of differences in which each side gives in on some 
    point while retaining others and reaching a mutual agreement thereby. 
    D 
    deter: to prevent or discourage. 
    dole: the British term for government relief. 
    E 
    environment: one’s surroundings; the material things around one; the area 
    one lives in; the living things, objects, spaces and forces with which one 
    lives whether close to or far away. 
    evolutionary: related to a very ancient theory that all plants and animals 
    developed from simpler forms and were shaped by their surroundings rather 
    than being planned or created. 
    example: someone or something worthy of imitation or duplication; a pattern, 
    a model. 
    F 
    flourish: to be in a state of activity and production; expanding in 
    influence; thriving; visibly doing well. 
    H 
    happiness: a condition or state of well-being, contentment, pleasure; 
    joyful, cheerful, untroubled existence; the reaction to having nice things 
    happen to one. 
    honor: to show respect for; to treat with deference and courtesy. 
    I 
    immoral: not moral; not following good practices of behavior; not doing 
    right; lacking any idea of proper conduct. 
    implacable: not open to being quieted, soothed or pleased; remorseless; 
    relentless. 
    incompetence: lacking adequate knowledge or skill or ability; unskilled; 
    incapable; subject to making big errors or mistakes; bungling. 
    industrious: applying oneself with energy to study or work; actively and 
    purposefully getting things done; opposite of being idle and accomplishing 
    nothing. 
    influence: the resulting effect. 
    influences: has an effect upon. 
    L 
    lies: false statements or pieces of information deliberately presented as 
    being true; a falsehood; anything meant to deceive or give a wrong 
    impression. 
    M 
    materialism: any one of a family of metaphysical theories which view the 
    universe as consisting of hard objects such as stones, very big or very 
    small. The theories seek to explain away such things as minds by saying they 
    can be reduced to physical things or their motions. Materialism is a very 
    ancient idea. There are other ideas. 
    materialistic: the opinion that only physical matter exists. 
    mechanism: the view that all life is only matter in motion and can be 
    totally explained by physical laws. Advanced by Leucippus and Democritus 
    (460 B.C. to 370 B.C.) who may have gotten it from Egyptian mythology. 
    Upholders of this philosophy felt they had to neglect religion because they 
    could not reduce it to mathematics. They were attacked by religious 
    interests and in their turn attacked religions. Robert Boyle (1627-91) who 
    developed Boyle’s Law in physics, refuted it by raising the question as to 
    whether or not nature might have designs such as matter in motion. 
    moral: able to know right from wrong in conduct; deciding and acting from 
    that understanding. 
    morale: the mental and emotional attitude of an individual or a group; sense 
    of well-being; willingness to get on with it; a sense of common purpose. 
    murder: the unlawful killing of one (or more) human being(s) by another, 
    especially with malice aforethought (intending to do so before the act). 
    O 
    obligation: the condition or fact of owing another something in return for 
    things, favors or services received. 
    obligations: the state, fact or condition of being indebted to another for a 
    special service or favor received; a duty, contract, promise or any other 
    social, moral or legal requirement that binds one to follow or avoid a 
    certain course of action; the sense of owing another. 
    P 
    phenomenon: an observable fact or event. 
    pilloried: exposed to ridicule, public contempt, scorn or abuse. 
    practice: to exercise or perform repeatedly in order to acquire or polish a 
    skill. 
    precepts: rules or statements advising or laying down a principle or 
    principles or a course of action regarding conduct; directions meant as a 
    rule or rules for conduct. 
    production: the act of completing something; finishing a task, project or 
    object that is useful or valuable or simply worth doing or having. 
    promiscuous: having or engaging in casual, random sexual relations. 
    propaganda: spreading ideas, information or rumor to further one’s own cause 
    and/or injure that of another, often without regard to truth; the act of 
    putting lies in the press or on radio and TV so that when a person comes to 
    trial he will be found guilty; the action of falsely damaging a person’s 
    reputation so he will not be listened to. 
    propagandist: a person or group who does, makes or practices propaganda. 
    prosper: to achieve economic success; succeeding at what one does. 
    R 
    relief: goods or money given by a government agency to people because of 
    need or poverty. 
    safeguard: prevent from being harmed; protect. 
    S 
    survival: the act of remaining alive, of continuing to exist, of being 
    alive. 
    T 
    temperate: not going to extremes; not overdoing things; controlling one’s 
    cravings. 
    truth: that which agrees with the facts and observations; logical answers 
    resulting from looking over all the facts and data; a conclusion based on 
    evidence uninfluenced by desire, authority or prejudice; an inevitable 
    (unavoidable) fact no matter how arrived at. 
    tyrannical: the use of cruel, unjust and absolute power; crushing; 
    oppressing; harsh; severe. 
    V 
    vandalism: the willful and malicious destruction of public or private 
    property, especially anything beautiful or artistic. 
    virtues: the ideal qualities in good human conduct. 
    W 
    will: bearing or attitude toward others: disposition; traditionally, “men of 
    good will” means those who mean well toward their fellows and work to help 
    them. 

    

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