Dr. Julian Huxley favors establishment of a European federation based on a constitution similar to that which Alexander Hamilton set up for the United States and with the organization of refugee settlement as one of its chief tasks.
The British biologist and author told an overflow audience of more than 500 in the Unterberg Auditorium of the Jewish Theological Seminary last night that such a federation, excluding Soviet Russia, was necessary to regulate Europe’s internal affairs after the conclusion of the present war.
Dr. Huxley, surveying the present crisis from a biologist’s viewpoint, said that totalitarian countries were losing their best minds because liberal and Jewish scientists were being exiled and because the system of repression lessened the efficiency of others in the course of time.
“It behooves all rational people, firstly, to avoid all use of the word ‘Aryan’ and, secondly, the word ‘race,'” he said. “There is no such thing as a pure race, except possibly a tribe of African pygmies or the Andaman Islanders.”
German claims to a Nordic type, the scientist asserted, are “the rationalization of some idealist dream or some cultural conflict.” The race theory in Germany is simply a mythology to replace existing theistic religions, “an attempt to set up human group values as something to worship,” he said.
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