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Page 27 - ... people. Over this congeries of States would preside a central Government, increasingly representative of and responsible to the people of all of them...
Page 27 - Over this congeries of States would preside a central Government, increasingly representative of and responsible to the people of all of them; dealing with matters, both internal and external, of common interest to the whole of India; acting as arbiter in inter-state relations, and representing the interests of all India on equal terms with the self-governing units of the British Empire.
Page 35 - ... expedience. Lastly, a nation may be divided into two or more States on account of territorial separation— as for example, the English and the North American, the Spanish-Portuguese and the South American and one of the results of this division will be the development of new and distinct national traits.
Page v - Earth, that he wrote his book "not so much to show that human organization and development have been determined by geographic conditions as to insist that in the future they should be," the implication, of course, being that man must study far more intimately the nature and possibilities of his geographical environment in order to achieve the harmony with it which lies within his power. This address is to be followed by a paper on the regional planning of a district which includes...
Page 114 - will not eat crocodiles or apes, although they taste well. If you did not have so many pigs and crabs you would eat crocodiles and apes, for hunger hurts. It is all a matter of habit. When I have killed an enemy it is better to eat him than to let him go to waste. Big game is rare because it does not lay eggs like turtles. The bad thing is not being eaten, but death, if I am slain, whether our tribal enemy eats me or not. I know of no game which tastes better than men. You whites are really too...
Page 13 - ... and colour could possibly consist with an underlying and essential dogginess. Not only is every race akin to every other, but every people is a hotch-potch of races. The Jews, though mainly a white people, are not even devoid of a coloured fringe, black, brown, or yellow. There are the Beni-Israel of India, the Falashas of Abyssinia, the disappearing Chinese colony of Kai-Fung-Foo, the Judeos of Loango, the black Jews of Cochin, the negro Jews of Fernando Po, Jamaica, Surinam...
Page 45 - The social conditions that have kept the negro from acquiring a higher organization lie in the fact of the constant shifting of the African populations, which are not held in place by the physical conformation of territory such as that of Greece and Italy. The African societies were thus not given time to strike roots and to acquire a national tradition and history — the memory of races — which is one of the chief ingredients of civilization.
Page 254 - ... may be, but it must exist not less for our welfare than its own. It is here, perhaps, that we have been led astray by the dangerous analogies of the nineteenth century. When we accept the idea of the state as an organism, what is emphasised is subjection of its parts to the welfare of the whole. But, in sober fact, the welfare of the state means nothing if it does not mean the concrete happiness of its living members. In 42 Cf. Sir F. Pollock's interesting essay on the Theory of Persecution,...