Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to survive.

Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the territorial state; economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide markets.

History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?

Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism.

No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of degree in the militarism of states.

Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism.

Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.