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WORLD MORALS EDITION XXI

Transmit heritage to future generations

Preserve cultural and natural heritage so future generations can know, use, interpret, and appreciate it.

Comparative atlas · Original English corpus · Evidence before conclusions

A mapping is not a verified quotation. Workbook labels are preserved. An absent mapping does not mean rejection. We do not rank the moral worth of any system.
Religious systems
3/52

5.8%

Nonreligious systems
4/41

9.8%

Represented systems
7/93

7.5%

Specific anchors*
1/7

14.3%

*Calculated from source labels beginning “Specific”; not a count of verified quotations.

Corpus definition

Preserve cultural and natural heritage so future generations can know, use, interpret, and appreciate it.

This is the atlas’s definition, not a substitute for a tradition’s own interpretation. Scope, exceptions and translations require review of each source.

Preserved calculation difference

The original index differs from recomputed unique-system or specific-anchor counts. Both are retained; the source file is unchanged.

All Systems: source 94 · recomputed 93

Overall %: source 7.4 · recomputed 7.5269

Evidence, mapping by mapping

7 selected mappings

Earth Charter Ethics · Official framework-level anchor

Transmit heritage to future generations · System profile

Workbook anchor (not a quotation)

Earth Charter principles of respect, ecological integrity, justice, democracy, nonviolence, and peace

Open original source ↗ earthcharter.org

Official framework-level anchor · Global ecological and social ethics

Framework-level mapping: verify the exact principle or article, affected community, legal status, and interpretive scope before formal quotation.

Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 10089. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.

Religious Society of Friends - Quaker Ethics · Official framework-level anchor

Transmit heritage to future generations · System profile

Workbook anchor (not a quotation)

Friends General Conference materials on peace, integrity, equality, simplicity, community, and stewardship

Open original source ↗ www.fgcquaker.org

Official framework-level anchor · Abrahamic / Christian peace tradition

Framework-level mapping: verify exact doctrinal context, institutional authority, historical setting, and scope before formal quotation.

Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 10090. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.

Seventh-day Adventist Christianity · Official framework-level anchor

Transmit heritage to future generations · System profile

Workbook anchor (not a quotation)

Official fundamental beliefs on Christian behavior, stewardship, health, family, and salvation

Open original source ↗ adventist.org

Official framework-level anchor · Abrahamic / Christian

Framework-level mapping: verify exact doctrinal wording, translation, historical setting, institutional authority, and scope before formal quotation.

Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 10091. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.

Tibetan Buddhist Universal Responsibility · Official framework-level anchor

Transmit heritage to future generations · System profile

Workbook anchor (not a quotation)

Official Dalai Lama teachings on compassion, nonviolence, environment, and universal responsibility

Open original source ↗ www.dalailama.com

Official framework-level anchor · Dharmic / Buddhist

Framework-level mapping: verify exact text, school, translation, historical context, and scope before formal quotation.

Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 10092. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.

UNESCO Climate Change Ethics · Official framework-level anchor

Transmit heritage to future generations · System profile

Workbook anchor (not a quotation)

Declaration of Ethical Principles in relation to Climate Change

Open original source ↗ www.unesco.org

Official framework-level anchor · International environmental ethics

Framework-level mapping: verify the exact article, context, legal or ethical status, and scope before formal quotation.

Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 10093. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.

UNESCO Future Generations Ethics · Official framework-level anchor

Transmit heritage to future generations · System profile

Workbook anchor (not a quotation)

Declaration on the Responsibilities of the Present Generations Towards Future Generations

Open original source ↗ www.unesco.org

Official framework-level anchor · International intergenerational ethics

Framework-level mapping: verify the exact article, context, legal or ethical status, and scope before formal quotation.

Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 10094. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.

World Heritage Stewardship Ethics · Specific primary/official anchor

Transmit heritage to future generations · System profile

Workbook anchor (not a quotation)

Article 4: protection, conservation, presentation, and transmission to future generations

Open original source ↗ www.unesco.org

Specific primary/official anchor · International cultural and environmental ethics

Framework-level mapping: verify the exact article, context, legal or ethical status, and scope before formal quotation.

Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 10095. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.

History and geography: source limits

This edition does not supply a historical genealogy or coordinates for this teaching. Transmission, invention, population and geographic presence are not inferred from a mapping.

Explore connections in the same category

Shared systems in the corpus, not evidence of historical influence.

M420 · Cultural and Natural Heritage Stewardship

Protect natural heritage of outstanding value

Safeguard ecosystems, geological formations, habitats, and natural sites of exceptional scientific, ecological, or aesthetic importance.

5 / 93 systems mapped · 5.4%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M419 · Cultural and Natural Heritage Stewardship

Identify and protect cultural heritage

Recognize, document, conserve, and transmit monuments, sites, traditions, and other culturally significant inheritances.

5 / 93 systems mapped · 5.4%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M422 · Cultural and Natural Heritage Stewardship

Cooperate internationally to protect shared heritage

Provide scientific, technical, financial, and institutional cooperation when heritage preservation exceeds local capacity.

5 / 93 systems mapped · 5.4%
Workbook confidence: Developing
Unmodified source statistics
Primary Rank - Religious449
Overall Rank400
Nonreligious Rank305
Religious Frequency Tier37
Religions Sharing3
Religious Systems52
Religious %5.8
Nonreligious Groups Sharing4
Nonreligious Groups41
Nonreligious %9.8
All Systems Sharing7
All Systems94
Overall %7.4
Direct Official Anchors1
Direct Evidence %14.3
Cross-Sphere Balance Index59.2
Religious Adoption Gap-4

Specialized or emerging teaching

Provenance: Universal Moral Code — Statistical Atlas, Edition XXI. Names, definitions and source anchors are preserved verbatim. This atlas describes its corpus, not all beliefs or practices worldwide.