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The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.
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We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.
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Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.
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Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.
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If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.
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However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with agreed international law and means of enforcing the law, is inevitable.
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Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.
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Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.
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As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies.
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In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.
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Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.
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