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Alexander the Great and the Unity of Mankind

Alexander the Great and the Unity of Mankind

Alexander the Great and the Unity of Mankind

Alexander the Great and the Unity of Mankind

Alexander the Great and the Unity of Mankind

Alexander the Great and the Unity of Mankind

W. W. Tarn: Alexander the Great and the Unity of Mankind. (From the Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. XIX.) Pp. 46. London: Milford, 1933. Paper, 2s. 6d.

W. W. Tarn: Alexander the Great and the Unity of Mankind. (From the Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. XIX.) Pp. 46. London: Milford, 1933. Paper, 2s. 6d.

Alexander the Great and the Unity of Mankind. By W. W. Tarn. (The Raleigh Lecture on History, British Academy, 1933.) Pp. 46. London: Humphrey Milford, 1933. 2s. 6d.

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Columbus and Cathay, and the Meaning of America to the Orientalist

IT IS A PRIVILEGE and a joy to be an orientalist in our day. The Chinese walls that formerly fenced off each branch of oriental learning as a separate mandate are gradually crumbling away. We begin to recognize clearly that all oriental civilizations have been closely connected with one another from very ancient times and that particularistic Monroe doctrines like China for the Chinese, India for the Indians, hold good no longer in scientific research. We are now confronted, for instance, with the spectacle of an early Indian substratum in Western Asia, a wide Sumerian expansion over Iran, northwestern India, central Asia and northern China, and anl intimate interaction of Iranian and Chinese civilizations. The ancient history of Asia should be rewritten, not by an individual, but in sympathetic cooperation by the entire brotherhood of orientalists. And more than that-our territorial ambitions may lead us far beyond the natural boundaries of Asia, for Asiatic civilizations could not fail to exert a profound influence over Europe, Africa, the South Sea Islands, and perhaps even Australia. The entire Old World is ours, therefore, but our oriental imperialism is one of peaceful penetration, and, accentuating as it does the unity of mankind and the common origin of human civilization, it tends to work toward the unification and harmony of mankind. The question I wish to ventilate to-day is: Does America hold out a similar interest to the orientalist? Have we the right to expand our activity into the western hemisphere? Are we privileged to knock at the door of the Americanist, humbly and modestly, of course, and to offer our collaboration in the study of problems in which he is interested? This is a vast and complex subject, also much misunderstood, and on this occasion I can only hope to sketch it in its broadest outlines and to stimulate your interest in this fascinating inquiry.

The New Humanism

Previous articleNext article FreeThe New HumanismGeorge SartonGeorge Sarton Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Isis Volume 6, Number 11924 Publication of the History of Science Society Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/358203 Views: 778Total views on this site Citations: 26Citations are reported from Crossref PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Warwick Anderson History and philosophy of science takes form, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 93 (Jun 2022): 175–182.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2022.04.001Alison Wylie Humanizing Science and Philosophy of Science: George Sarton, Contextualist Philosophies of Science, and the Indigenous/Science Project, Canadian Journal of Philosophy 52, no.33 (Oct 2022): 256–278.https://doi.org/10.1017/can.2022.33Tetiana Luhova Serious Games for Recruitment in the New Humanism, (Mar 2022): 375–394.https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-9732-3.ch017Yavuz UNAT Bilim Tarihi Disiplini ve Bilim Tarihine Farklı Yaklaşımlar, Üniversite Araştırmaları Dergisi 4, no.Özel SayıÖzel Sayı (Dec 2021): 1–8.https://doi.org/10.32329/uad.971531Natalia Anna Michna More-than-human world? 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Darwin on the Unity of the Human Race

HAVING had occasion last year to allude as a fact to the circumstance that Charles Darwin assumed mankind to have arisen at one place, and therefore in a single pair, I was surprised to find that this fact was doubted, or at least very doubtfully accepted, by some of my scientific friends; and I was asked for a reference to his works in confirmation of it. My principal reliance, however, was in the recollection of a private letter to myself from the illustrious naturalist, which I had unfortunately mislaid. Having now recovered this letter, I send a copy of it to NATURE for publication, simply explaining that this letter was in reply to a letter from me in which I put the direct question, why it was that he did assume the unity of mankind as descended from a single pair? It will be observed that in his reply he does not repudiate this interpretation of his theory, but simply proceeds to explain and to defend the doctrine.

Mental Potentiality in Children of Different Races

MONS. J. C. HOUZEAU, the author of the “Études sur les facultés mentales des animaux comparées a celles de I'homme,” has lately concluded, in Jamaica, a series of laborious experimental investigations on the relative or comparative intellectual capacity and development of the children of different races inhabiting that island. The conclusions arrived at by such an observer are worthy of the highest consideration in Europe: while the subject is one that has an important bearing on various popular educational, ethnological, and social questions of the day—such as the unity of mankind, and the possibility or probability of civilising savage races A recent letter addressed to me by M. Houzeau, contains the following brief account of his experiments and conclusions; an account that cannot fail, I think, to be interesting to the readers of NATURE.

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