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

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.

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

Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state; this manner of thinking is, moreover, revealed by its outer forms: by armaments and state organization.

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

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

A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally.