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A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fearof a horrible common

destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe.

Emily Greene Balch

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

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.

Emily Greene Balch

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

Another cause of change, one less noticeable but fundamental, is the moderngrowth of population closely connected with scientific and medical discoveries. It is

interesting that the United Nations has set up a special Commission to study this

question.

Emily Greene Balch

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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Emily Greene Balch

Born: January 08, 1867

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

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.

Emily Greene Balch

It is natural to try to understand one's own time and to seek to analyse the forces

that move it.

Emily Greene Balch

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.

Emily Greene Balch

Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we canhardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous

change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate.

Emily Greene Balch

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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Died: January 09, 1961 (age 94)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Educator

Bio: Emily Greene Balch was an American academic, writer, and pacifist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in1946, notably for her work with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

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Educator

Born in 1867

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