Papers on inter-racial problems communicated to the first Universal Races Congress, held at the University of London, July 26-29, 1911 / edited, for the Congress executive by G. Spiller.
- Universal Races Congress
- Date:
- 1911
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Credit: Papers on inter-racial problems communicated to the first Universal Races Congress, held at the University of London, July 26-29, 1911 / edited, for the Congress executive by G. Spiller. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![to co-partnership and co-operation for the common good and common advantage (socialistic Justice), within the limits imposed by the preceding clause. Such is the fundamental principle of International Jurisprudence. A realised Universal Humanity on this immutable basis is the goal of a Universal Races Congress like this. Of the various non-political agencies which may be useful in promoting the objects of such a Congress, one or two are noted below :— (1) The organisation of a World’s Humanity League (not an Aborigines Protection Society), with branches, committees, and bureaus in different countries. The chief object should be to promote mutual understanding, among members of different races, peoples, nationalities, of one another’s national ideals, social schemes, and regulative world-ideas. Congresses may be held under the auspices of the League in different centres. Thinkers from the East should be regularly invited to explain their own national or racial cultures and standpoints at meetings organised by the different branches in the West ; and vice versa, (2) The endowment of Professorships of Oriental Civilisation and Culture in Western Universities and Academies, to be held by Orientals from the countries concerned ; and mutatis mutandis in the East (in countries in which European civilisation does not already hold a dominant position). No scheme of national values, ideals, cultures, in one word, world-ideas, will in the present day be dealt with by foreigners, as other than curiosities of an Archzological Museum (or an Entomological Laboratory). (3) The publication of an International Journal of Comparative Civilisation, which would serve as a medium for the exchange of international views on economic, domestic, social, religious and political problems of the day from the different national standpoints ; and would also expound the origin and develop- ments of social institutions in the different national histories. The Journal would have for its chief object the application of the biological, sociological, and historical Sciences to the problems of present-day legislation and administration. (4) Some organised effort, if possible, against the anti-social and anti- humanitarian tendencies of the modern political situation; such as the colour prejudice, the forcible shutting of the door in the West against the East, with the forcible breaking it open in the East in favour of the West; national chauvinism ; national aggressiveness, and war. Our motto is Harmony. [Paper submitted in English. ] ANTHROPOLOGICAL VIEW OF RACE By Dr. FELIX VON LUSCHAN, Professor of Anthropology in the University of Berlin. COLOURED people are often described as savage races, but it is com- paratively rare to find any attempt to give a proper definition of “coloured” and “savage.”](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32752325_0065.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
