131:. Between 1881 and 1885, Thomas Davidson held small meetings with this group of intellectuals. These meetings were designed to incorporate people who held similar ideals as Davidson, and to form a small society promoting the reorganisation of individual life. This reorganisation would then lead to slow progress towards a higher overall form of human society. Davidson was much more interested in discussion and meetings about this goal than scientific study or speculation.
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and completest education of the young; (4) the introduction, as far as possible, of manual labor in conjunction with intellectual pursuits ; (5) the organisation, within and without the
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Designs. The promotion, by both practice and precept, of the following methods of contributing toward the attainment of the end : (i) The supplanting of the spirit of competition and self-seeking by that of unselfish regard for the general good ; (2) simplicity of living; (3) the highest
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unselfishness, love, and wisdom, unite, for the purpose of realising the higher life among ourselves, and of inducing and enabling others to do the same. And we now form ourselves into a
Society, to be called the Guild of the New Life, to carry out this purpose."
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in 1900. The party's constitution, written by Sidney Webb, borrowed heavily from the founding documents of the Fabian
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Havelock Ellis was present when the Fellowship of the New Life was founded in London in 1883. There is no record of his contributions to discussion, although his participation in the organisation increased after the formation of the
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Street. Before she joined, she was active in a number of cultural and political enterprises, but it was joining the Fellowship that earned her notability.
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