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

But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty.

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

It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle.

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.

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.

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.