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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Politician

Born: September 23rd, 1880

Died: June 25th, 1971

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