98 Natural Salvation. 



edge. An ignorant, ill-disposed race or nation, bent on 

 selfish and aggressive courses, may properly be constrained 

 to do right, even within their own ancestral territory. 

 Men or races have no natural right to do wrong, even if 

 never so sincere, never so self-holy. 



With the Indo-European rests not only the responsi- 

 bility to do right for the world, but the duty of seeing to 

 it that others do right. This is, in very truth, "the 

 white man's burden," the gravest of all responsibility. 



In nearly all civilized countries there are now scientific 

 associations, or what corresponds to this, which might on 

 proper representation be united for promoting public 

 enterprises of a scientific character. These societies and 

 associations would serve as the national units of the pro- 

 posed international Gens. Science, which is the main- 

 spring of all present progress, is thus far deficient in 

 methods of working on a world-wide scale, or even of 

 acquainting, save by hearsay of the press, scientific men 

 of one country with the aims and purposes of those in 

 another. In many cases, it is not until published papers 

 appear, that scientists in other lands gain an inkling of 

 what cotemporary investigators are doing. Nothing like 

 an economic division of labor in scientific research, or in 

 the way of mutual aid, has as yet been attempted. This 

 isolation, too, has bred a kind cf jealousy and small 

 secrecy concerning research, which obstructs rather than 

 facilitates progress. 



