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.

Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.

Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.

When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes.

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.

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.