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Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.
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The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.
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The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally.
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Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith.
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Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.
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There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.
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It is natural to try to understand one's own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it.
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The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility.
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Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate.
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Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.
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As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so.
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A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.
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The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.
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A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason.
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A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe.
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Born:
January 8, 1867
Died:
January 9, 1961
(aged 94)
Bio:
Emily Greene Balch was an American economist, sociologist and pacifist.
Known for:
Our Slavic Fellow Citizens (1910)
Public Assistance of the Poor in France (1893)
OUTLINE OF ECONOMICS (1899)
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