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