“Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.”
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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.
It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.
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.
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.
