Came across this a couple of days ago in the autobiographical section of Whiteheads collected essays In the adjustment of the Jews and the Arabs, one-sided bargains are to be dreaded. They spell disaster in the future. The hope of statesmen should be to elicit notions of mutual service and of inter-weaving of habits to that the diversity of populations should issue in the fulfillment of the varied subconscious claims of life. There is a new world waiting to be born, stretched along the easter shores of the Mediterranean and the western shores of the Indian Ocean. The condition of life is the fusion of Mahometan and Jewish populations, each with their own skills and their own memories, and their own ideals. War can protect; it cannot create. Indeed, war adds to the brutality that frustrates creation. Alfred North Whitehead, March, 1939
Posted on: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 19:27:01 +0000
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