¶ Mutual Survival Principles (1)
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Index Entry
Mutual Survival Principles:
"It is mathematically probable that the unprecedented physical and geographical magnitude of the United Nations’ war effort will win a military advantage over the unprecedented military challenge to the as yet adolescent cause of democracy.
"However, the educated individual, thinking responsibly upon the problems that confront personal, family, state, and national fate, if not survival of the human race itself, is well aware that a military advantage gained over the enemy, no matter how tactically incisive, cannot represent a solution to the greater problems in principles governing a workable system of mutual survival.
"The unheeded challenge of these overgrown mutual survival problems themselves precipitated the war. Rather than diminishing in the emergency, they have been heightened in degree of general recognition and of popular language definition. Because the problems are now total in scope and therefore astronomical in dimensions, there is a tendency to assume that the answer must be found in physical plans of unprecedented might.
¶ Citations
- Introduction to Motion Economics; May’44
