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ically to the same stimuli, have the same hopes and 

 fears, pride and prejudice, joys and sorrows; the same 

 rights, the same obligations, and the same end. 



When man turned his thoughts away from human 

 life to nature-life, the old values vanished, never to 

 return, and new ones took their places. For science 

 knows no barriers, and fosters no spirit of propagand- 

 ism. She permits no proprietorship in sun, or moon, 

 or stars; instills no prejudice in poison, and forbids 

 all privilege with death. There is no racial bigotry 

 in heat, or cold, or gravity. The microscope, the bal- 

 ance, and the test-tube speak the same language to all 

 mankind; they tell the same story to England, Ger- 

 many, and Japan, they tell to me, to you, and to yours. 



VIII. The New Demands of the New Freedom 



With man's new mental and bodily freedom, and 

 his new discoveries of constructive Tightness, all the 

 physical and organic fibres of society surged with ex- 

 panding life, and with a more profitable social meta- 

 bolism. The new returns created new demands, and 

 the new demands impelled man to seek, and to find, 

 new ways and means to satisfy them. Mankind inter- 

 mingled, bred, and multiplied, and with the same 

 basic motives spread their racial rootlets and commer- 

 cial tendrils into every nutrient nook and corner of 

 the earth, distilling their peculiar qualities into one 

 another, and exercising their mutually adaptive influ- 

 ences on one another, wherever they came in contact. 

 The physical machinery and the mental vision neces- 

 sary to sustain this world-wide social organization, put 

 into the hands of social children the most terrible de- 



