Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.

The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and variety of means of destruction.

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

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

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

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

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.