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\n\t\tCHAPTER <\/font><\/b>
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\n \tWorld-Union or World-State<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nT<\/font><\/b>HIS,
\nthen, in principle is the history of the growth of the State. It is a history
\nof strict unification by the development of a central authority and of a
\ngrowing uniformity in administration, legislation, social and economic life and
\nculture and the chief means of culture, education and language. In all, the
\ncentral authority becomes more and more the determining and regulating power.
\nThe process culminates by the trans- formation of this governing sole authority
\nor sovereign power from the rule of the central executive man or the capable
\nclass into that of a body whose proposed function is to represent the thought
\nand will of the whole community. The change represents in principle an
\nevolution from a natural and organic to a rational and mechanically organised
\nstate of society. An intelligent centralised unification aiming at a perfect
\nrational efficiency replaces a loose and natural unity whose efficiency is that
\nof life developing with a certain spontaneity its organs and powers under the
\npressure of inner impulse and the needs of the environment and the first
\nconditions of existence. A rational, ordered, strict uniformity replaces a
\nloose oneness full of natural complexities and variations. The intelligent will
\nof the whole society expressed "in a carefully thought-out law and ordered
\nregulation replaces its natural organic will expressed in a mass of customs and
\ninstitutions which have grown up as the result of its nature and temperament.
\nIn the last perfection of the State, a carefully devised, in the end a giant
\nmachinery productive and regulative, replaces the vigour and fertility of life
\nwith the natural simplicity of its great lines and the obscure, confused,
\nluxuriant complexity of its details. The State is the masterful but arbitrary
\nand intolerant science and reason of man that successfully takes the place of
\nthe intuitions and evolutionary experimentations of<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nNature;
\nintelligent organisation replaces natural organism. <\/font> <\/span>
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/font> <\/span>The unity
\nof the human race by political and administrative means<\/span> implies eventually the formation and organisation of a
\nsingle World-State out of a newly created, though still loose, natural organic
\nunity of mankind. For the natural organic unity already exists, a unity of
\nlife, of involuntary association, of a closely interdependent existence of the
\nconstituent parts in which the life and movements of one affect the life of the
\nothers in a way which would have been impossible a hundred years ago. Continent
\nhas no longer a separate life from continent; no nation can any longer isolate
\nitself at will and live a separate existence. Science, commerce and rapid
\ncommunications have produced a state of things in which the disparate masses of
\nhumanity, once living to themselves, have been drawn together by a process of
\nsubtle unification into a single mass which has already a common vital and is
\nrapidly forming a common mental existence. A great<\/span> precipitating and transforming shock was needed which
\nshould make this subtle organic unity manifest and reveal the necessity and
\ncreate the will for a closer and organised union and this shock came with the
\nGreat War. The idea of a World-State or world-union has been born not only in
\nthe speculating forecasting mind of the thinker but in the consciousness of j<\/span> humanity out of the very necessity of
\nthis new common existence.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n


\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/font> <\/span>The
\nWorld-State must now either be brought about by a mutual understanding or by
\nthe force of circumstances and a series of new and disastrous shocks. For the
\nold still-prevailing order of things was founded on circumstances and
\nconditions which no longer exist. A new order is demanded by the new conditions
\nand, so long as it is not created, there will be a transitional era of
\ncontinued trouble or recurrent disorders, inevitable crises through which
\nNature will effect in her own violent way the working out of the necessity
\nwhich she has evolved. There may be in the process a maximum of loss and
\nsuffering through the clash of national and imperial egoisms or else a minimum,
\nif reason and goodwill prevail. To that reason two alternative possibilities
\nand therefore two ideals present themselves, a World-State founded upon the’
\nprinciple of centralisation and
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uniformity, a mechanical and formal unity, or a
\nworld-union founded upon the principle of liberty and variation in a free and
\nintelligent unity. These two ideas and possibilities we have successively to
\nconsider.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

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CHAPTER XXII World-Union or World-State   \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0     THIS, then, in principle is the history of the growth of the State. It is a history of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-15-social-and-political-thought-volume-15","wpcat-25-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}