The shadow of the world's future, or The earth's population possibilities & the consequences of the present rate of increase of the earth's inhabitants

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Identifikator:: 1775636852

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-164018

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Author:: Knibbs, George Handley http://d-nb.info/gnd/1045010944

Title:: The shadow of the world's future, or The earth's population possibilities & the consequences of the present rate of increase of the earth's inhabitants

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Ernest Benn Limited

Year of publication:: (1928)

Scope:: 131 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter IX. World-Population and nationalism

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WORLD-POPULATION AND NATIONALISM gg or when the consequences of so doing seem to be of little material—not moral—moment. . The intrinsic difficulties arising from differences in language, in education, in social ideals, and in race are very real, but are by no means wholly insuperable. But when the possibilities of being the victim of bad faith and of cruel attack are superadded, that co-ordina- tion of effort and necessary co-operation, which are a prime requisite, become quite impossible. Perfidies as between nation and nation really mean that physical disasters are inevitable. They mean also something vastly worse, viz., the antagonism of human souls, and the degradation of the human spirit. They involve the culture of a cynicism for which we pay dearly. This brings one to the heart of the whole question, viz., “What is the spirit which should be behind nationalism?” Is the aim only organisation for power, or is it organisation for the soul of humanity? In short, is this to be considered really a non-moral world, in which force and material ends are the things to be regarded as of supreme value, and dreams of the en- nobling of the life and spirit of man to be treated as afutile phantasy? Orisit a world in which a moral law is deep written in the constitution of things, where the real object of unspeakable value is nobility of character and the development of the human mind? One’s answer to these questions goes to the basis of the whole matter. Is the cynic right, or is the believer in some sort of higher destiny of Man right? We shall venture to assume that Man’s greatest dis- covery is that, after all, there is an ethical foundation in the heart of this world. Attempts apparently to dominate the world do not succeed, though judged by the probabilities of the issues, on the basis of the persistent physical and mental preparation made, they may have seemed certain of success. One

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