Christian Lous Lange
Christian Lous Lange
Christian Lous Langewas a Norwegian historian, teacher, and political scientist. He was one of the world's foremost exponents of the theory and practice of internationalism...
NationalityNorwegian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth17 September 1869
CountryNorway
spiritual civilization community
Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally.
spiritual art character
Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life; from this national consciousness art and literature derive their character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based.
age sovereign states
Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism.
battle engagement sovereign
It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle.
fate civilization doe
History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?
thinking vices needs
A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally.
struggle rely-upon survival
All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.
communication media intellectual
Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.
joy feelings together
Within each such social group, a feeling of solidarity prevails, a compelling need to work together and a joy in doing so that represent a high moral value.
technology masters dangerous
Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.