Brotherhood

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 286, 29 August 1931, Page 20

Brotherhood

ldealists who enthuse over every little people rescuing its | traditions, revivifying its language, going through all the wellI known paraphernalia of self-determination, are often the same idealists who press on to an all-embracing Internationalism based on Brotherhood and the universal view,” said Sir Josiah Stamp, in tho course of the Clifford Lectuie at the recent Brotherhood Movement Conference. “Divesting themselves of all principles, setting aside as cumbersome all the clutter of facts, their minds then operate freely, and they are eternally confident and self-satisfied. The truth is that we have as yet evolved no acceptable fundamental principles of development. We do not know how significant and Indestructible race and language and even religion may be. Language, as a valid test of unity, fails again and again. We certainly have most of us the view that the white races have a natural

superiority in attainment and development, but our modern sociologists warn us against the presumption that this affords us any rule of guidance. . . .. “No great work has ever been achieved by the great artist without a great will and a grqat conception. But even he needs to know his tools, and yet more the quality, the texture, the grain, the fibre, the very structure of the material in which he is to work. What is possible in one medium with knowledge Is impossible in it without, and perhaps impossible in another medium altogether. “Brotherhood is a great conception; but it should be the moving spirit, not alone in the spiritual, but also in the scientific unravelling of the mysterious complex of ethnology, biology, anthropology, psychology, comparative religion, economics, language, and history, which make the passions and misunderstandings and possibilities and germplasm, of mankind and the world of States to-day. Somewhere and somehow, mercy and law are one reign; the Supreme Mathematician and the Great Father are one God.”