As the world community develops in peace, it will open up great untapped reservoirs in human nature.

As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so.

A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.

It is natural to try to understand one's own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it.

As the world community develops in peace, it will open up great untapped reservoirs in human nature.

The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.