Excerpt from Our World, the New World-Life
"Our Country" appeared in 1886. An American in India wrote me after reading it, "I hope your next book will be entitled 'Our World.'" Here it is; and I have been at work on it during all these years.
"Our Country" pointed out a national crisis and discussed certain national perils. "Our World" calls attention to a world-crisis, and considers certain world-problems which, unless they are duly solved, will become imminent world-perils.
During historic times, when social or economic pressure has forced a crisis, there has always been until now an escape by migration. But No Man's Land has been exhausted; there are no more New Worlds. The problems which come with increasing density of population can no longer be evaded.
When, in the long past, civilizations have become corrupt and effete, waiting barbaric hordes have overwhelmed degenerate peoples, and civilization has begun anew. But there is no more fresh, unspoiled barbaric blood whose infusion can vivify a decaying civilization. If civilization necessarily engenders corruption and effeminacy, then is the race doomed, and it is time to pray for Huxley's friendly comet to execute the sentence. In other words, society in its evolution has reached a stage in which the great human problems that vitally concern not the privileged classes, nor the dominant races, nor the Great Powers alone, but mankind - Our World - must be faced.
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