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.
From John Boyd Orr
Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.
Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.
After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed.
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.
However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with agreed international law and means of enforcing the law, is inevitable.
As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.
Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.
The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.
The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.
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