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\n\tThe Ideal of Human Unity<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

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\nPreface to the First Edition <\/font><\/b> <\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe chapters of this book were written in a serial form in the
\npages of the monthly review, Arya<\/i>, and from the necessity of speedy publication have been reprinted as they stood without
\nthe alterations which would have been necessary to give them a greater unity of treatment. They reflect the rapidly changing
\nphases of ideas, facts and possibilities which emerged in the course of the European conflict. The earlier chapters were written when Russia was still an Empire and an autocracy, the later parts after the Russian revolution and when the war had come
\nnearer to its end, but the dramatic circumstances of the issue, in itself inevitable, could not be foreseen. The reader may guide
\nhimself in regard to the references to contemporary conditions by observing that the first four chapters cover the close of the
\nyear 1915, the next twelve 1916, the seventeenth to the twentyeighth 1917, while the remaining seven extend to July 1918. The
\nrapid change of circumstances reflected will serve to bring home the swiftness of the evolution by which what was a hesitating
\nidea and a doubtful possibility at the commencement has become a settled necessity awaiting speedy formulation. <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tSubsequent events have rendered certain speculations and balancings
\n\t\t\tout of date, for they have been solved by the logic of events.
\n\t\t\tAustria is a name of the past, the Empire of the Hohenzollerns has
\n\t\t\tdisappeared like a dream of the night, all Europe between the Rhine
\n\t\t\tand the Volga is republican. Finally, most important of all, the
\n\t\t\tLeague of Nations has now been decided upon, the American idea
\n\t\t\thaving triumphed at least in principle, and is in travail of
\n\t\t\tformation. But the main suggestions put forward in the book remain
\n\t\t\tunaffected, or rather acquire a more pressing actuality. The two
\n\t\t\tgreat difficulties which attend the incipience of this first stage
\n\t\t\tof loose world-union will still be, first, the difficulty of
\n\t\t\tbringing into one system the few great  <\/p>\n

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\n\tEmpires remaining, few but immensely increased in power, influence and the
\n\textent of their responsibilities, and the greatly increased swarm of free
\n\tnations which the force of events or the Power guiding them rather than the
\n\twill of nations and Governments has brought into being, and the approaching
\n\tstruggle between Labour and Capitalism.  The former is only a difficulty
\nand embarrassment, though it may become serious if it turns into a conflict between the imperialistic and the nationalistic ideas
\nor reproduces in the international scheme the strife of the old oligarchic and democratic tendencies in a new form, a question
\nbetween control of the world-system by the will and influence of a few powerful imperial States and the free and equal control
\nby all, small nations and great, European and American and Asiatic peoples. The second is a danger which may even lead to
\ndisintegration of this first attempt at unification, especially if, as seems to be the tendency, the League undertakes the policing of
\nthe world against the forces of extreme revolutionary socialism. On the other hand, the conflict may accelerate, whatever its
\nresult, the necessity and actuality of a more close and rigorous system, the incipience at least of the second stage of unification.\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe main contentions advanced in these pages also remain unaffected by the course of events,
\n\t\t\t\u2014 the inevitability of the
\nunification of the life of humanity as a result of those imperative natural forces which lead always to the creation of larger and
\nlarger human aggregates, the choice of the principles which may be followed in the process, the need for preserving and bringing
\nto fullness the principle of individual and group freedom within the human unity, and the insufficiency of formal unity without
\na growth of the religion of humanity which can alone make it a great psychological advance in the spiritual evolution of the
\nrace. <\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tPublisher’s Note to the Second Edition
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The Ideal of Human Unity <\/i>first appeared in the “Arya” Vol. II, No. 2 \u00ad Vol. IV, No. 12) complete in 35 Chapters, serially from
\nSeptember, 1915 to July, 1918.<\/p>\n

It was reproduced in book-form in 1919 by The Sons of
\nIndia Ltd., Madras (with three Appendices, a Preface and a detailed synopsis of the Chapters. The Appendices contained
\narticles from the “Arya” setting forth the ideals of the Review).<\/p>\n

The present edition is a revised version; but the revision was done
\n\t\t\tbefore the last World War. It is, however, printed almost in that
\n\t\t\tform brought up-to-date by the addition of a Postscript Chapter
\n\t\t\tdealing with the world conditions today.<\/p>\n

\n\tApril, 1950<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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