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

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter VII. The migration of populations

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THE MIGRATION OF POPULATIONS 85 spirit. For example, an aggressive nation will often persuade itself—really or apparently—that its domina- tion over others, even by armed threats or by war, will advance the culture of the subjugated peoples. It will perhaps do this even while arguing that all relations between nations are necessarily a-moral, and that “force” is that which must and which ought to decide all issues. Again, a supposed democratic people, occupying a relatively empty country, may often violently oppose the immigration of peoples who are prepared to work harder, and to live more thriftily and humbly. Such an attitude may also attempt to mask itself by a pro- fession of patriotism. In reality attitudes such as these need to be dissected for motives; they are not always what they seem to be on the surface; and, too, they may ultimately lead to unexpected issues, which are likely to fall not always upon those that develop them, but upon their unfortunate descendants. To some extent, it may be, Man is involved in conflict, partly through the niggardliness of Nature. Whenever it is realised that the ultimate issue, as between two communities, is necessarily the downfall of one or of the other, doubtless the issue will depend upon intelligently directed force. Possibly the pre- vailing system of civilisation involves this: but this civilisation has been indicted in Sir Rabindranath Tagore’s Nationalism (Macmillan, 1918). Without committing oneself in any way unreservedly to Tagore’s point of view, he has undoubtedly recognised some of the limitations of western civilisation, and the penalties that have been paid, and doubtless will yet be paid, for its defects. These defects operate to increase the difficulty of migration adjustments. {t is proper to observe, at the same time, that but for the influence of western civilisation upon India, it would have been impossible for her to have maintained

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