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American - Educator January 8, 1867 - January 9, 1961

It is natural to try to understand one's own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it.

Emily Greene Balch

Time Try Understand Own

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.

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Struggle Desire Liberty Tyranny

The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.

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Japan Germany Role Italy

Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common.

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Loyalty Church Without Either

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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Fear Community Men Destiny

A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations.

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Which Inventions Social Production

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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Time New More Nationalism

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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Technology Age Revolution Being

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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Freedom Society Men Poor

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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Technology Time Rest Distance

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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Future Impossible Will Trends

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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War Long Responsibility Challenges

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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Great Religion Understand Desire

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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Change Faith Courage Face

We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste beyond all computation.

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Time Suffering Flood Beyond

We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act.

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Influence Only Study Us

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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Science World Way Human

Another cause of change, one less noticeable but fundamental, is the modern growth of population closely connected with scientific and medical discoveries. It is interesting that the United Nations has set up a special Commission to study this question.

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Change Growth Medical Special

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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Future Time Only Some

In listing these tendencies making for a new world, we must not forget developments in the religious or spiritual thinking and feeling of mankind, where also we feel a strong unifying trend.

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Thinking World Feeling Spiritual

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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Change Time People Thinking

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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War World First Left

These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out.

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Death Hope Way Imperialism

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