Races and nations as functions of the world whole

convulsion . . . It is deeper. The Western crisis of history and civilisation synchronises with an aeonian change and

with the birth of an altogether new and different world’. * * * *x * *

It may seem that, having started with a concept of races, and having gone on to build up a pathway to the acceptance of races as vital organs of Humanity, we reached the conclusion that the world has now passed beyond the racial stage to one of pure individuality related to the wholeness of the entire human race. Yet our daily experience shows us that the effects of racial distinctiveness and the problems of racial compatibility are with us as practical realities to be understood and lived through. It was characteristic of Mitrinovié to enter deeply into the problems of the present, but his concern always reached beyond these into the human future. We have seen that he gave deep thought to the question of races and nations, and perhaps the time has now come to apply in this field of human relations the view he expressed that philosophy should become a wisdom in which the world is not merely mirrored but by which it is governed. If what he calls for seems to make us want to cry with the Psalmist: ‘Such knowledge is too wonderful for me: it is high, I cannot attain unto it’, this is

something that he faced. He said

“World-politics can only be a work of saints and supermen, for it can only be a work of cosmic responsibility.’

We must take it that he believed such a level of human development to be attainable.

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