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
nations scope simply
On the contrary. Internationalism also recognizes, by its very name, that nations do exist. It simply limits their scope more than one-sided nationalism does.
technology masters dangerous
Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.
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.
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.
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.
profound development fields
Like all social theories, internationalism must seek its basis in the economic and technical fields; here are to be found the most profound and the most decisive factors in the development of society.
practice division-of-labor program
The main concept is that of an international solidarity expressed in practice through worldwide division of labor: free trade is the principal point in the program of internationalism.
struggle hands sovereign
Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism.
reading world pulse
The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind.