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- Country
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Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.
- Every
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Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.
- Knowledge
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Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.
- Peace
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Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.
- Power
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Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.
- Evil
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The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.
- Change
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When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.
- First World
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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.
- Only
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As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.
- Enforcing
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However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with agreed international law and means of enforcing the law, is inevitable.
- Growth
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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.
- More
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In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.
- Powerful
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In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without.
- Powerful
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Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction.
- Great
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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.
- Nations
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We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.
- New
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As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies.
- Everything
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During the last war when there was a market for everything that could be produced, the production capacity of Canada and the United States, which were outside the battle area, increased one hundred percent.
- Earth
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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.
- Economic System
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