Ethics and some modern world problems / by Willam McDougall.

  • William McDougall
Date:
1924
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    that have built up our modern civilization would have been absorbed in the general mass, like a few drops of milk in a basin of coffee, leaving upon that mass hardly any recognizable trace of their racial qualities. This forecast of the effects of a century of universal ethics, generally and literally obeyed, is based upon four assumptions; they may be stated as follows: (1) Under the conditions of universal freedom and of political and social equality postulated by the universal ethics, popu¬ lation would tend rapidly to distribute itself over the surface of the earth in the way suggested; (2) peoples of lower cultures would multiply rapidly; (3) while those of higher culture would not, but, rather, in all probability would dwindle rapidly in numbers; (4) miscegenation would result. It is now my task to show that these four assump¬ tions are well-founded. 1. We have only recently entered upon the era of extreme facility of human transportation on a large scale; yet already we have good evi¬ dence of its effects in promoting vast migrations. Wherever no bars to migration into the less crowded areas have been raised, the people of the crowded areas have begun to swarm in; and
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