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新的家园 A New World(2)

id without the assistance of thousands of others. Neither did they stamp out 14)malaria and 15)yellow fever for the exclusive benefit of the black man or the white man or the yellow man. Without regard to color or 16)creed they bestowed their blessings upon the whole of humanity. When 17)Goethals dug the Panama Canal, he was not thinking of either the Pacific or the Atlantic alone, nor of America alone, but of the world as a whole. When 18)Marconi invented his wireless, he did not stipulate, “Only Italian ships must be allowed to use the radio in case of disaster.”
  然而,还是有出路的,里德和罗斯的努力给我们指出了前行的大方向。他们两人既不是索取,也不是施舍,而是“合作”。如果没有数千民众的协助,他们决不可能取得那样的成就。他们消灭了疟疾和黄热病,并不是单纯为了黑人或白人或黄种人,而是使全人类从中受益,完全摒弃了种族和信仰偏见。戈索尔斯开凿巴拿马运河时,也并非只为了太平洋或大西洋或美洲的利益,而是为了全世界。马可尼发明无线电通讯时,也并未指定“只允许意大利船只在紧急情况下使用无线电”。