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First of all, these are not different secondary ideals: this is the central matter of each and every individual. But in our rationalist worldview, we do not recognize in all of them the unity of any ideal, except for the one and only ideal: a Jewish majority on both sides of the Jordan, as a first step in the building towards the establishment of the state. For this reason it is called "Monodemos." It would have been an injustice if someone seemingly saw in the commercial announcement above any cynical attitude towards social problems in general. We too, like all human beings, are convinced in our inmost hearts that the present social entanglement is evil and cruel, and that it is necessary to adapt it with determination and diligence. And the course towards a better society has always been one of the most solid traditions of Israeli thought, from the great social legislator, Moses our teacher, until recent decades. Many among us believe that in the renewal of the ruins of the Land of Israel precisely into a social laboratory, the cure for the redemption of all human society will be revealed and crystallized in our own special way. But before we proceed to discover the virtues, we must first and foremost establish the laboratory.

These words about the "laboratory" do not in any way show a contradiction. Many peoples have helped and contributed from their spiritual tithe to the creation of that treasure of thought and idea that we call "general culture"—and it has sown opinions and ideas; but there is not one among them whose share is as great as our share in one social area: in the area of the improvement of the social conflict. Among all the nations and peoples of the world, we are the main "expert" in this "holy" profession. But due to the greatness of history's evil path, that same "expert" on changing the structure of society remained, the only one among all the peoples, without a land of his own, without a complete social body, that could be rebuilt, adapted to our needs and our aspirations. The Jewish aspiration for social reforms could only be expressed in our success in spreading our ideas among other peoples; to these we, however, give advice, presumably, and not by example—as the other peoples give. —for it alone is the necessary and most suitable means to change the world by building according to our foundations.