“Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.”
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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.
Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.
Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure.
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.
