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

Quote by John Boyd Orr

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When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments...

When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments...

Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.

Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.

However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with...

However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with...

The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret...

The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret...

In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in...

In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in...

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years...

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years...

If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving...

If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving...

Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new...

Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new...

Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every...

Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every...

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by...

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by...

There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of...

There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of...

Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and...

Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and...

Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not...

Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not...

We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the...

We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the...

As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has...

As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has...

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed...

In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed...

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad....

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad....

After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It...

After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It...

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small...

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small...