Section VI. Of the Duties of Citizens.

25. Q. What do we owe to the Sovereign?

A. As the head of the State we owe to the Sovereign or her lawful Representative loyalty, respect and obedience.

26. Q. What are the duties we owe to the State?

A. It is our duty to obey the laws and teach others to do so. We should also respect every properly-constituted authority for maintaining law and order.

27. Q. What further duties are there we owe the State?

A. It is our duty to qualify ourselves to page 10 take a part in the government of the country, when called upon to do so.

28. Q. Is there not something more?

A. The highest duty we owe to the State is to assist in securing good government and the passing of those laws which will be best for the country, both now and hereafter.

29. Q. What are the objects of government?

A. The objects of government are to protect the lives and property of the subjects from external and internal foes and wrongdoers; and to promote the general well-being of the people.

30. Q. What is meant by the general well-being of a Slate?

A. It consists of three divisions—the material, the intellectual, and the social.

31. Q. Can these be detailed?

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A. The material, intellectual and social well-being of a people are so interwoven with each other, that it is difficult to distinguish them. It may be said, however, that all three go hand-in-hand.

32. Q. And why is this?

A. Because each of the three in a properly organised society acts and reacts on the other two.

33. Q. State some of the results which flow from the advancement of the general well-being of a people?

A. If the material, intellectual and social well-being of a people are secured there will be peaceable enjoyment of property; general diffusion of the comforts of life; intellectual advancement; culture of the arts and sciences; liberty of opinion; just laws; and the development of industrial pursuits.

34. Q. How may these be stated briefly?

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A. The object, of all government should be to promote the greatest present and future happiness of the greatest number of individuals, and only by endeavouring to secure this is true patriotism shown.

35 Q. How are individuals affected?

A. A State is made up of individuals, and the well-being of those individuals makes the well-being of the State.