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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Page Fifteen
ON BROTHERHOOD
By Adlai E. Stevenson
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A hundred years ago, even
fifty, perhaps even fifteen,
to speak of World Brother
hood was, I suspect, to adorn
with rhetoric what was at
most a remote ideal. Today,
however, it has become an
insistent, demanding reality,
thrust upon us whether we
accept it or not by a science
that has broken down the
fences which had before sep
arated the peoples of the
world.
Recently a new star flashed
across the skies. I ivish it had
been we who lighted that
first new star. It disturbs me
greatly, as an American, that
it was not. Yet I know, as a
citizen of the world and as
Excerpts from an address by
Adlai E. Stevenson at the
World Brotherhood dinner of
the National Conference of
Christians and Jews, Monday,
November 11, 1957, Waldorf-
Astoria, New York City.
a member of tomorroiv, that
the basic issue is no longer
the supremacy of nations. It
is the supremacy of man for
good or for evil, for survival
or suicide. The significance of
what has happened lies not
in which nation has first
reached into outer space but
in the fact that man has now
obliterated, for better or for
Worse, what we used to call
time and distance.
I deny that the satellite is
a portent of disaster. I think
rather of John Donne’s mark
ing of the times in history
that “are pregnant with those
old twins, Hope and Fear.”
Surely this is such a time, a
time not of catastrophe but
of choice, not of disaster but
of decision, a time when the
preferment of our aspirations
over our fears becomes the
duty of citizenship in civili
zation.
A very large part, I sus
pect, of the maturing of man
kind to its present estate has
come from adversity, or the
threat of adversity. More
frontiers of what we call pro
gress have probably been
crossed under the pressure
of necessity than by the pow
er of reason. Prophets have
appeared all through history
to proclaim an ethic, but
humanity has not heeded
them, and the world has
wandered its way—until the
hard steel of survival itself
has been pulled against our
too soft mouths.
Now, once again, science
has forced humanity to a
crossroad from which there
is no turning back, no es
cape—and just one road that
leads upward. The choice is
either extinction—or the hu-
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man brotherhood that has
been the vision of visionaires
since the beginning of time.
I deny that human fulfill
ment cannot keep pace with
material advance. We know
and must insist rather that
ivhat was heralded by the
splitting of the atom, what i2r
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now proclaimed by the earth
satellite, is nothing narrower
than man’s complete genius—
not to exterminate himself,
but to control himself.
What that “bleep-bleep” is
saying is that now the world
has no option, that it must
turn from narrow national
ism, sectarianism, racialism,
that the only conceivable re
lationship among men is one
based on men’s full respect—
yes, their love, if you please—
for each other.
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