THE DECLARATION OF AIMS FOR A MODERN DRAGONOLOGICAL SOCIETY
When, in the Course of Dragonological events, it becomes necessary for hitherto independent Dragonologist to unite themselves and become connected the one to another as members of a Dragonological Society, and thereby to assume among the Societies of the Earth a certain responsibility to Nature as it exists in Dragon kind, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the Laws by which their new new formed Society will operate.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Dragons who exist are under a terrible threat of extinction, given mankind's extraordinary capacity for continued expansion across the globe, but that Dragons, like all sentient creatures, ought to be allowed certain inalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Treasure. That to secure these rights, Dragonological Societies are instituted among men, deriving from their belief in and experience of Dragons, to study, conserve, and protect those dragons that still remain, and to remain secret subtle, and at all times silent about this essential work with those who do not believe, or else claim not to believe, in Dragons. That whenever any Dragonological Society becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the members to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new Society, laying its foundation on such Dragonological principals, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect the Work of a Dragonologist and promote the honorable science of Dragonology.
We therefore, the Representatives of This Dragonological Society, do solemnly publish and declare by our signatures on the back of this Declaration that we formed from this Ninth day of April, in the year of Two-thousand twelve a Dragonological Society that shall be hereafter be called the American Society of Dragonologists.
*Steer,Dugal. The Dragonology Handbook: A Practical Course In Dragons Candlewick Press 2005