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...Species? Grandson Darwin shakes his grey head over this hope. Birth control, he says, is possible biologically but not sociologically. In accordance with a kind of sociological Gresham's Law,* the people who restrain their birth rate will be supplanted by those who do not. Backward but ambitious races are sure to defy the birth rules and increase deliberately at the cost of their prosperous, birth-restraining neighbors...
...world."-He and his followers saw themselves as latter-day Prophets, trying to bring their people back to the live faith and concrete charitable sacrifice of primitive Christianity. He scorned churches, which he called "steeplehouses," and he wanted no organized, salaried ministry, but he knew his Bible backward & forward...
Coleman traced the rise of nationalism to agitation of Western-educated native leaders. Returning from European and American universities where they had demonstrated equal capacities and had tasted modern culture, they were expected to submerge themselves into the backward social systems of their homelands...
...half-million modern Bolivians bring these backward highlanders to the ways of the western world? Amid the faded red-tile roofs of La Paz (pop. 321,000), world's highest capital, rise such steel-and-glass skyscrapers as the 14-story University of San Andres. Shaggy llamas shuffle indolently to the side of the capital's steep, cobbled streets to make way for Fords and Cadillacs. Government officials, demanding emancipation from the tyranny of tin, urge Bolivians to look eastward to the regions where the Andes fall away in giant green gorges called yungas to the Amazonian jungles...
...their dealings with labor. Said he: "Let's hope that none of us thinks . . . that we can now return to some of the autocratic or paternalistic methods of dealing with employees . . . practiced in the past. We have learned a lot ... in recent years . . . and we dare not step backward." Said N.A.M.'s Managing Director Earl Bunting: "Self-interest dictates the highest order of industrial statesmanship ... in the public interest...