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

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

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

The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally.

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

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.

Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.