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Ch. 8: Golden Semicircle

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EPILOGUE                                                      597
mcnt, perhaps it would be better to say the new frontier, which must now be conquered, is not the physical one, but the political one.
It is not likely to prove an easy task. Racialism and nationalism—the two are frequently confused but are in fact not identical forces—have at least one clement in common: they are in essence irrational, recog­nizing no higher sanction than the continued existence of the group or the race, as such. Business life is impossible unless it is recognized that its basic assumption is that means can be rationally adjusted to ends, and that this may imply a structure which must transcend what is conceived to be the structure most appropriate to preserve the narrow limits of the group. But racialism and nationalism appear to be the forces that will dominate Africa for some time to come.
Yet it is precisely a situation such as this that calls for qualities in the business leaders which were pre-eminently those possessed by Ernest Oppenheimer and which were the basis of his outstanding business career. Courage and initiative; imagination and faith; inventiveness and good will—these are basic human attributes without which it would have been impossible to solve the problems of the past and without which the still more difficult problems of the future will be intractable.
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