THE Earth Is Getting Smaller
When people are from very different countries with very different ways, it can be hard for them to understand one another. Not very long ago the number people who knew anything about people in other countries was very small. Few people went far from home or took much interest in other countries.
Today all this is changed. Every day, men hear more and more about other countries and about how bad their government are. They hear about the strange and wrong ideas other countries have of they.
If we knew them better ,we would see that people everywhere are very much like ourselves :not very good or very bad, but in between and able to become better or worse than they are. Men”s minds are as like one another as their bodies are.
We say,“The earth is getting smaller.” It is the same size as it was, but we can go about it more and easily. Many more people travel outside their own countries every year.
We can get news today from any part of the world in a few seconds, though we may not always understand it/
Many more ideas, right or wrong about other countries are in people’s minds.
Most of this interest in other nations and places is good if it goes deep enough. We need to know more. If we can keep our heads on our shoulders, the wider knowledge and experience which are coming will help the world to better days.
The earth seems to be getting smaller because men’s experience is getting wider. All sorts of new ways of living and new ways of doing things have come to us in the last fifty years.
Stranger things are coming.
Men can today travel through space to the moon, though only a very small number of them have done so. The price is too high for most countries to send even one man there for the present.