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 XII. Epilogue

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27 success which is necessary for the real amelioration of things, then it must engage the attention of every country that can influence the issue. With Man’s reliance upon his intelligence, it is not altogether impossible that he has lost some measure of —if he ever had them—his intuitional powers. The so-called instincts, which to some extent appear to guide animals, are of little service to him, although the researches of Boirac, Ochorowicz, Osty and others seem to show that Man has what—for the want of a better term—may be called praternatural powers. Is his insight really of this nature? ‘There is abroad a sense of unrest, as if we were in the thrall of an unseen trouble. Is this verily some apperception of the fact, which we have here tried to establish by means of appropriate statistics? One of course can hardly say. But one can say, quite positively, that the rational evidence is unmistakable; the world cannot escape the issues, which its rate of increase is rapidly developing. May not this be the Shadow of the World’s Future, which is mysteriously influencing its thought? With a normal perspective, the picture of Nature’s activities is of profound intellectual interest. But those activities are by no means always a comfort to human beings. Even the mere shaking of the earth’s crust may be appalling to the earth’s peoples. In the 1927 Norman Lockyer Lecture, Dean Inge, speaking on Science and Ethics in relation thereto, pointed out that the time has gone by when Man could regard the world as in being for his benefit alone, and one may add, or even primarily for his benefit. At the present time Man has the upper hand, and must exploit his opportunity in the best way possible. Is he, how- ever, to be an uncontrolled animal, whose instinctive reactions are to carry him on to his doom? Or is he to be relieved by his vision of the world’s possibilities, and by his adapting himself to its inescapable issues? EPILOGUE

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