FUTURE OF THE WORLD.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2499, 28 October 1922, Page 4

FUTURE OF THE WORLD.

FUSION OF PEOPLES

ANOTHER ICE AGE LIKELY.

GREAT SCIENTIST’S THEORIES

The truth of tlie.New Testament revelation that nations will ultimately he tis one was emphasised by Professor Sir C. S. Sherrington, president of the British Association in his presidential address.

“In the range of animal forms,” , he said, “we meet two peaks, one in j insect life, and the other in the vertebrate. Tn the insect the type of j mind is not rational, but instructive whereas at the height of vertebrate j development, reason is there as well as instinct. Yet in both the one outcome seems to be the welding of individuals into societies on a scale of organisation otherwise unattained.”

To a representative of the Daily

Chronicle, Professor Sherrington amplified what this scientific reasoning involved. He was asked if it meant that in ages to come there would be a complete fusion of nations, and he replied, “Undoubtedly, at some remote period. That is what we were leading forward to. “\Ve can tell,” he said, “in what direction nature is bearing us. One day the revelation in the New Testament will he realised and. the human race will be one harmonius nail. Tt will take aeons of time, but a review of biological history points to the fact that the processes arc .functioning towards that end. The pressman remarked that it was strange this should he so sum lar to a Biblical prophecy.

He replied lb.it science only e< n(irniei! the revelation of a Kingdom of God upon carth. “Eve" the gro:>! war." Im daclarod. “was a step toward evolution and the fusion of nations. Gcrmany’s idea was execrable. Her idea of fusion of races was lor overv oilier nation to have been welded under her, and lor Ms lo have been slaves under German foremen, but the course the war prevented tluit, and the frivol' problem of the future, from the biological point of view, in considering ilie human race as one broad, harnionius whole, is that of the yellow and coloured populations in America.

“That to the scientific mind is.an extremely difficult problem, but I have no doubt in my own mind that ultimately the whole of the human family will be as one unit.’ When asked whether some great planetary cataclysm or enternoeine disturbance of the future was likely to affect that harmony of races, the professor agreed that it was ciuito possible there might be another glacial epoch to be reckoned with by humanity beforehand. "'I hat would indeed be an S.O.S. for I lie world,” be said, “and there is no (|uestion but that it will come one day as ir lias occurred in the past. “The lilting of. the earth's axis,” lie said, “will make' those parts of the world now cold much colder, and those ports now tropical will become more temperate.

“We are gelling to tlit? end of our main sources of energy." lie said, “though after coal there is water power. Should human ingenuity

I find some other source of power j the next glacial epoch might 1101 I matter much, except to drive man j lo his greatest achievement. “Such an epoch might last 10.- ; OOP year.-,” lie said, and drew a , 1 graphic picture of how man saved : j himself in (he last period when the 1 human race retreated south and lived in eaves.