"The submission that race prejudice is but another name for ethnological ignorance was made by Professor Griffith Taylor, Professor of Geography in the University of Toronto, in his presidential address on "Correlations and culture: a study in technique," given before the Geography Section of the British Association last month, Professor Taylor was the senior geologist in Scott's last expedition in 1910, Professor Taylor, after commenting on evolution in the relation of education to three divisions of knowledge—physical sciences, biological sciences, and the Humanities—said that today the social sciences were challenged by the forces of reaction. As an Instante he mentioned the perverted use of anthropology and sociology to advance the views of some of the totalitarian nations, Geographers, he suggested, could do yeoman service to clarify some of these issues if they taught tolerantly and scientifically what was becoming known as cultural geography, Referring-to his 20 years' work on the "Migration-Zone" theory of rectal evolution and classification, Professor Taylor said that this demonstrated that all the progressive nations of the world were built up. of the same three stocks—Alpine, Nordic, and Mediterranean, When this thesis was accepted much of the evil structure based on "race-prejudice" must fall to the ground, In his opinion race prejudice was but another name for ethnological ignorance, This was a very encouraging idea, for cultural differences of languages, education, and religion could be entirely changed in a generation, whereas a real racial barrier was much more difficult to over-rome, One of the main results of a knowledge of cultural geography wa: a much clearer conception of the distinctions between race, nation, language, and religion than most educated people possessed. It could be well illustrated in connection with the spread of the Jewish people, More-Over this study clearly defined the danger resulting from powerful political groups dabbling in sciences of which they were ignorant,
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