The Guides Explained A massive granite monument espousing the conservation of mankind and future generations. Sources for the sizable financing of the project choose to remain anonymous. The wording of the message proclaimed on the monument is in 12 languages, including the archaic languages of Sanskrit, Babylonian Cuneiform, Egyptian Hieroglyphics and Classical Greek, as well as English, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, Hindi, Chinese, Spanish, and Swahili: * Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature - Guide reproduction wisely - improving fitness and diversity - Unite humanity with a living new language - Rule Passion - Faith - Tradition - and all things with tempered reason - Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts - Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court - Avoid petty laws and useless officials - Balance personal rights with social duties - Prize truth - beauty - love - seeking harmony with the infinite - Be not a cancer on the earth - Leave room for nature - Leave room for nature