Chapter 10.                    Part F 

         A universal moral code would not end the diversity of cultures on this planet; it would simply give people in those different cultures a means by which they could settle disputes between cultures without them having to go to war. Then, by art, sport, commerce, intermarriage, etc., in two or three generations, the integration of adversarial cultures could and would take place. The theory is sound: we could build one world, beautiful, vigorous, evolving, and peaceful.  

 

                                                               artist's conception of a utopian future 

               

            For now, however, we must return to our main line of thought. 

            We had arrived at the step in our reasoning which states that all of a society’s morés/approved behaviors are implicit in its world view. Now we can move on – still by small steps and gradual degrees – to examine the question of whether any worldview, along with its concomitant sets of values, morés, and behaviors, can be shown by logic and evidence to be so directly derived from the deep principles of material reality itself that it deserves to be adopted by the whole human race as a beginning point for a new moral system.  

Notes 

1.http://hyenas.zoology.msu.edu/ 

2.http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1983/may-jun/cimbala.htm

3. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini