VISION OF FUTURE

Taranaki Daily News, 24 September 1930, Page 8

VISION OF FUTURE

FOUR RULING NATIONS. PROFESSOR'S PROPHECIES. London, Sept. 9. ... That four great nations—the Englishspeaking people, the Latins, the Leu-, tons and the Slavs—will in time control the whole of America, Africa, Australia, Oceania and Northern Asia was predicted by Professor Lutoslawiski, professor of philosophy at the University of King Stefan Batory in Wilno, Poland, in an address before the International Congress of Philosophy at Oxford. It mattered little, said the professor, whether Spanish-America joined an An-glo-American or Latin union. China and Japan were clearly predestined to form one great nation; the races of India another, and the third might grow around Palestine, Mesopotamia, Arabia, or Persia. Turkey could not bo in .he way of these nations, as each needed vast territory for growth. ■ Professor Lutoslawski predicted the abolition'’ of taxes, because the voluntary contributions of patriotic citizens would fill the treasury. Armies would not be needed, as the fulfilment of a mission of general welfare to mankind excluded every ambition of conquest. Crime would become very rare.

In legislative bodies the numbers would be greatly reduced and much higher intelligence and character could be expected when many really well-paid competent bureaucrats would replace the crowd of inefficient bureaucrats. Professor Lutoslawski, who is 67, is a philosopher of high international reputation, and the author of many philosophical books and articles.