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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roo THE SHADOW OF THE WORLD’S FUTURE thing that may evidently be misjudged is the world’s psychology. The spirit behind aggression can never promise a bright future for Man. There are those who think that the only mistakes made are the decisions to make the conflicts armed conflicts. To such it is submitted that had the conflicts been non-moral com- mercial ones, the issues would still be subject to the moral world-basis and would be untoward ultimately. They create intense antagonisms. It is when such matters are kept in view that the relationship of Nationalism to the peopling of the world becomes very significant. When nationalism is supremely egoistic, it is non-moral and conflicts with the ideals of nationalism developed for the benefit of humanity. Is it, as a fact, true that “ no nation liveth unto itself?” In short, is there a higher world- purpose than the organisation of a people for power and self-aggrandisement, viz., to ensure both its well-being and its beneficence to all other peoples? One sees the smile of incredulity of those whose real faith is that there is but one god and that god is Material Power, power which arises from a knowledge of the nature of material things; power which can create material wealth; and can create also instruments of awful disaster to those who oppose them; power which can create instruments, too, that can help us to explore the realm of the physical and subjugate Nature to our ends with extraordinary success, compelling her to contribute more to the purposes of human life and human sustenance. It is this power, some will assert, that has already revealed the way for greater multitudes to live on earth; a fact proved by the large rate of the recent increase, compared with Man’s mysteriously slow development in the past. To this one may answer: “Yes, it has undoubtedly shown that the accessions of knowledge may be beneficent in their effects, but

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