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Emily Greene Balch (23)

Birth:	8th January, 1867
Death:	9th January, 1961
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Educator, Writer

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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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  Tags in Interests, Atomic, Globe, Weapon, Destiny

• 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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  Tags in Fascism, Ran, Waste, Cost

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

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  Tags in Nevertheless, Church, Loyalty

• 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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  Tags in Depths, Unchangeable, Principles

• 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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  Tags in Possibilities, Thereby, Formed, Judging

• 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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  Tags in Discoveries, Technological, Inventions, Relations

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

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  Tags in Arbitrary, Domestic, Tyranny, Struggle

• 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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  Tags in Speculate, Study

• 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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  Tags in Ignorant, Weak

• 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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  Tags in Diminished, Germany, Suffer, Suffered

• 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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  Tags in Analyse, Seek

• 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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  Tags in Nationalism, Regions, So-Called, Backward

• 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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  Topics in Challenge

  Tags in Succeed

• 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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  Tags in Treated, Economically, Colonialism, Imperialism

• 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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• 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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• 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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  Tags in Europe, Feudalism, Feudal

• 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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  Topics in Technology

  Tags in Telephone, Lessen, Telegraph

• 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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• 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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  Tags in Referred, Revolution