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

The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.

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

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

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty.

After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed.