Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.

Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.

If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.

We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.

In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.

Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.