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the biological, sociological and historic sciences to the problems
of present-day legislation and administration, should be pub-
lished to serve as a medium for the exchange of views. He
also recommended the endowment of Professors of Orienta
Civilization and Culture in Western universities and academies,
to be held by Orientals from the countries concerned, and in
the East-a suggestion upheld by Dr. Ferdinand Tonnies,
Professor of Sociology in the University of Kiel, Germany.
  Mr. Gustave Spiller, The Honorary Organizer of the Con-
gress, pointed out that anthropologists, sociologists, and scien-
tific thinkers could confer a great blessing on humanity by ex-
pounding the fundamental fallacy involved in taking a static
instead of a dynamic, a momentary instead of a historic, a
local instead of a comparative view of race characteristics,
and that such teaching could be conveniently introduced into
geography and history lessons and also into institutions for
training teachers, diplomats, administrators, missionaries, etc.
Dr. Felix Adler, the father of the Congress, advocated that
close attention should be paid to any experiments that have,
up to now, been conducted in the schooling of primitive con-
munities; the conditions of success, where a measure of suc-
cess has been achieved, should be noted; and new experiments
of this kind should be undertaken on a large scale. He also
declared that the greatest stress should be laid, in the case of
those who come into direct influential contact with foreign
groups, of a detailed study by them of the people to whom they
are sent--of their customs, manners, laws, literature, religion,
and art; and that it should be the aim of those who direct such
studies to engender in the students a generous appreciation of
all that is fine and worthy in the character and culture of the
alien peoples; and that it must be borne in mind that only
friendliness will secure a hearing, and only those who sincerely
appreciate the excellent qualities of foreigners can help them
overcome the deficiencies and lead them along the path of
further progressive development. More than one person
echoed the thought expressed by Professor Giuseppe Sergi, of
Rome, who pleaded that among savage tribes no violence
should be used in order to make them change their customs;




			

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African Methodist Episcopal Church Review, Vol. 28, Num. 2

Volume:  28
Issue Number:  02
Date:  10/1911