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Emily Greene Balch
Emily Greene Balch
American Educator
Born: Jan 8, 1867
Died: Jan 9, 1961
Basis Change Own People Time World
Related authors: Bill Nye Booker T. Washington Horace Mann John W. Gardner Michael Pollan Michael Porter Temple Grandin Timothy Leary
Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest. Emily Greene Balch
Time Technology Rest Distance Telegraph Telephone Facilities Gives Cable Us Lessen Radio Barriers
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. Emily Greene Balch
War Challenges Responsibility Long Sense Our Minds Only Put Major Another Without Question End Effort Whether Succeed
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. Emily Greene Balch
Spiritual World Strong Trend Feeling Thinking Must Religious Tendencies Feel Developments New Also Making Forget New World Listing Where Mankind Unifying
Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common. Emily Greene Balch
Loyalty Church State Vast Nevertheless Without Deal Common Either
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. Emily Greene Balch
Death Hope People Colonialism Way Possessions Out Weaker Given Colonial Imperialism Economically Also Least Were Blow Form Which Exploited Wars Appear Treated
The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically. Emily Greene Balch
France Diminished Italy Austria Germany Role Japan Suffered Britain
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. Emily Greene Balch
Relations Inventions No-One Major Altered Overlook Affected Discoveries Which Social Production Social Relations Whole Based Deeply Technological Basis
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. Emily Greene Balch
Time Suffering Ran Cost Computation Through Beyond Course Which Mankind Fascism Lived Flood Waste
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. Emily Greene Balch
Science World Made Enriched Way Reliance Ideal Disciplined Modern Human Modern Science Modern World Eternal Reason Basis Third
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. Emily Greene Balch
Future Time Too Much Judgment Own Too Our Possibilities Some Only Within Judging Enclosed Close Formed Gaining Much Doubtless Thereby Basis Appraise

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