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order that it may not be audacious to escape out of the bottle. Till weak mentality, the social control and on its decreasing the proportion of self-control may go on increasing. By this arrangement self-interest will be controlled and the tendency of equanimity will continue to deeply consolidate in man's mind.
Priority of Social Control:
Generally a majority of the people in a society are of such nature that their discretion is below the required limit and they do not possess the capability to understand their own discipline, to maintain it and abide by it. In order to bring them within the ambit of discipline and impell them to go ahead towards self-development, it becomes essential, that in that society the state policy, economic policy, traditions and procedure should be so constituted that the constitution be restrictive and also inspiring. In such a scheme of social control ordinary people may not get entangled in the claws of selfish demon-such should be the effort.
It we cast an eye towards the scientific development of human society, it will be evident that on account of somewhat little arrangement of social control on this selfishness, he has split as under the orbit of beastliness and stepped forward towards humanity. What is called as the primitive age anterior to the present civilization and culture, it is surmised man in that age wondered like a beast and only understood his self-good. In the manner he came into contact with his other fellow beings, in the same manner he has by his acts and contemplation advanced culture and civilization in the spheres of knowledge are, science and
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