HUMAN PROGRESS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1716, 5 April 1913, Page 5

HUMAN PROGRESS.

MARCH OF CIVILISATION.

NOTABLE A33DRESS BY MB. ERYCE. BACKWARD RACES DOOMED, B.y Telegraph—Press Aesocialion-Copjrrlßhl ' (Rcc. April I, 10.i'5 p.m.) London, April 4. At the International History Congress at Lincoln's Inn, a nolablo Presidential address by Mr. .Tames Bryce, was delivered. As Sir. TJryco was detained in Washington tho address was read for liim. Ho slated that a traveller in India, Africa, America, *ind Australasia saw llio smaller, weaker, and moro backward races changing under tho impact with civilised man. Their religions beliefs woro williercring; their customs were fading; and some, lileo tho Maoris, wero being absorbed into tho white population. Tho world was becoming one in a new sense, for except China nnd Japan, almost tlio entire earth was controlled by six European races, and eight Powers swayed tho political destinies of tho globe. By the year 2000 nine-tenths of tho human raco would speak less than twenty languages. Already there wero only four great religions. Nowadays whatever happened in any part had significance everywhere, including industrial disputes and tho state of tlio money markets. Finance, oven moro than politics, made tho world a einglo • com- I munity. ' | World history was tending to become ono history, and tho historian of tho futuro would need an amplitudo of conception and power in grouping his figures I like a Tintoretto or a Michael Angolo if it was to liandlo so vast a caiivas. Students of history woro specially called on to, try to roduco tho sources of international ill-feeling, for historians knew how few of th<>' world's wars had been necessary.