Article March 17, 1934 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from R. B. Mowat, Ruckdeschel, Elmer E. Brown, Albert Einstein

[Professor R. B. Mowat, in the Contemporary Review, as quoted in Public Opinion, London, England]

The crude and barbarous ethic which two thousand years ago was banished from individual morality—that one must live only to one's self—must with equal insistence be banished from the state ethic. It is amazing that the doctrine of state egotism has been tolerated for a moment, or that the glaring inconsistency between the inculcation of private unselfishness and national selfishness has not been patently realized....

If national selfishness was ever a means of survival in the past, it is assuredly not so now. It is the broad and open way to universal destruction, and already the nations are on the edge of the abyss.

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