Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable.

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

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

The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level.

In particular, the efforts to reestablish peace after the World War have been directed toward the formation of states and the regulation of their frontiers according to a consciously national program.

Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling.

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.