Races and nations as functions of the world whole

of the world symptoms studied in the first series, and the situation was showing a drift towards war. Among the most important of the new features were the establishment of communist Russia as a great power in the form of the U.S.S.R., and the rise of Fascism-Nazism. Of the former it is relevant to recall that he wrote:

‘The mission of Communism is to compel the world to re-orientate itself against all racial or ethnic world-orders’.

There is a change of style, too, the writing in these ten articles being extremely condensed and the series as a whole making up the most weighty and comprehensive piece of continuous writing that Mitrinovié has left, published or unpublished, as he never wrote a book but worked mostly by speaking, usually to quite small groups.

The concentration of emphasis upon the individual and the significance of individuation means that in this series there are comparatively few references to races—‘the Race’ or ‘our race’ are here used to mean the human race, Humanity Universal—so the study of the meaning of Christendom! is consequently given more concentrated attention. But Mitrinovi¢’s evaluation of the concept ‘race’ may be seen soon after his arrival in England at the beginning of August 1914, in an unpublished letter to H. G. Wells?:

“The race is greater than the nation and humanity is greater than the race’.

The great world power issues examined in the first series are not lost sight of in the highly elevated and more personal appeal of these later articles, but are re-stated with an effect of added urgency. lf China could liberate herself from

‘the imperial grip of Japan, would she necessarily be saved by the neo-Siberian invasion . . . of the Soviets? And would the miserable millions of India profit by being individuated, compelled to be westernised and modernised by the imperialism of Russia?’

1 ‘The Religion of Logos and Sophia from the writings of Dimitrije Mitrinovié on Christianity’; H. C. Rutherford; 12th New Atlantis Foundation Lecture, 1966.

2 Inthe archives of the New Atlantis Foundation.