“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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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.
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.
When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.
Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.
