“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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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.
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.
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.
