This document outlines a poet's code of ethics, with the following key points: 1) Attain brotherhood by serving all people with righteousness and goodwill instead of taking from others. 2) Recognize that all people are interconnected and harming one person harms all. 3) Develop good character, intelligence, and citizenship in people from a young age by teaching them to be good neighbors and loyal citizens.

1. POET’S CODE OF ETHICS

2. Attain the Brotherhood of Man ideal by giving righteous action and good will serviceto every man, instead of taking from him that which he has

3. Discover that all men are extensions of each other – that man is made for man – and that the hurt of one man is the hurt of all men.

4. Develop character, intelligence, and good citizenship by teaching every man from early youth to be a good neighbor and loyal citizen. Walter Russell (1871 – 1963)

5. Discover man’s inner Self by awakening within him that spark of divine Light which lies dormant in every man

6. Realize that work done for the material world should be for man’s ennoblement, and not for grinding his Soul out in the years of industrial machines.

7. Know that Man is Mind, not body

8. That he is immortal Spirit Not mortal flesh

9. and that he is good Not bad

10. Judge the righteousness and religion of any man by what he does to his fellow man and not by his beliefs, doctrines, creeds or dogmas

11. Herbert Spencer Walt Whitman Edwin Markham Mark Twain Ralph Waldo Emerson Oliver Wendell Holmes John Burroughs Walter Russell Lao Russell