ABSTRACT
Airplanes, radio, television, and other marvels of modern science have practically annihilated time and space for the human race. As lately as 1885 an American, George Kennan, visited Siberia to interview the political prisoners there, exiled by the Czar up to the number of two and three hundred every year; the convict colonies numbered thousands of persons, more or less closely guarded though there were frequent escapes. Kennan wrote a book on what he had seen there, in ample detail, which aroused deep indignation in the free countries. There and elsewhere in our "small world" innumerable people are either being driven like cattle, at a foot pace, where they do not want to go. Naturally the economies could and did progress from crude to skilled stages of development; also they can exist contemporaneously, becoming somewhat mixed and reacting on one another.
