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\n\t\t\tChapter XXII <\/font> <\/b><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t <\/p>\n

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

\n\t\t\t <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tT<\/font>HIS<\/b>, then, in principle is the history of the growth of the State.
\n\t\t\tIt is a history of strict unification by the development of a
\n\t\t\tcentral authority and of a growing uniformity in administration,
\n\t\t\tlegislation, social and economic life and culture and the chief
\n\t\t\tmeans of culture, education and language. In all, the central
\n\t\t\tauthority becomes more and more the determining and regulating
\n\t\t\tpower. The process culminates by the transformation of this
\n\t\t\tgoverning sole authority or sovereign power from the rule of the
\n\t\t\tcentral executive man or the capable class into that of a body whose
\n\t\t\tproposed function is to represent the thought and will of the whole
\n\t\t\tcommunity. The change represents in principle an evolution from a
\n\t\t\tnatural and organic to a rational and mechanically organised state
\n\t\t\tof society. An intelligent centralised unification aiming at a
\n\t\t\tperfect rational efficiency replaces a loose and natural unity whose
\n\t\t\tefficiency is that of life developing with a certain spontaneity its
\n\t\t\torgans and powers under the pressure of inner impulse and the needs
\n\t\t\tof the environment and the first conditions of existence. A
\n\t\t\trational, ordered, strict uniformity replaces a loose oneness full
\n\t\t\tof natural complexities and variations. The intelligent will of the
\n\t\t\twhole society expressed in a carefully thought-out law and ordered
\n\t\t\tregulation replaces its natural organic will expressed in a mass of
\n\t\t\tcustoms and institutions which have grown up as the result of its
\n\t\t\tnature and temperament. In the last perfection of the State a
\n\t\t\tcarefully devised, in the end a giant machinery productive and
\n\t\t\tregulative replaces the vigour and fertility of life with the
\n\t\t\tnatural simplicity of its great lines and the obscure, confused,
\n\t\t\tluxuriant complexity of its details. The State is the masterful but
\n\t\t\tarbitrary and intolerant science and reason of man that successfully
\n\t\t\ttakes the place of the intuitions and evolutionary experimentations
\n\t\t\tof Nature; intelligent organisation replaces natural organism. <\/p>\n

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\nThe unity of the human race by political and administrative means implies eventually the formation and organisation of a
\nsingle World-State out of a newly created, though still loose, natural organic unity of mankind. For the natural organic unity
\nalready exists, a unity of life, of involuntary association, of a closely interdependent existence of the constituent parts in which
\nthe life and movements of one affect the life of the others in a way which would have been impossible a hundred years ago.
\nContinent has no longer a separate life from continent; no nation can any longer isolate itself at will and live a separate existence.
\nScience, commerce and rapid communications have produced a state of things in which the disparate masses of humanity, once
\nliving to themselves, have been drawn together by a process of subtle unification into a single mass which has already a common
\nvital and is rapidly forming a common mental existence. A great precipitating and transforming shock was needed which should
\nmake this subtle organic unity manifest and reveal the necessity and create the will for a closer and organised union, and this
\nshock came with the Great War. The idea of a World-State or world-union has been born not only in the speculating forecasting mind of the thinker, but in the consciousness of humanity out of the very necessity of this new common existence. <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe World-State must now either be brought about by a mutual understanding or by the force of circumstances and a
\nseries of new and disastrous shocks. For the old still-prevailing order of things was founded on circumstances and conditions
\nwhich no longer exist. A new order is demanded by the new conditions and, so long as it is not created, there will be a transitional era of continued trouble or recurrent disorders, inevitable crises through which Nature will effect in her own violent way
\nthe working out of the necessity which she has evolved. There may be in the process a maximum of loss and suffering through
\nthe clash of national and imperial egoisms or else a minimum, if reason and goodwill prevail. <\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tTo that reason two alternative possibilities and therefore two
\n\t\t\tideals present themselves, a World-State founded upon the principle
\n\t\t\tof centralisation and uniformity, a mechanical and formal unity, or
\n\t\t\ta world-union
\nfounded upon the principle of liberty and variation in a free and intelligent unity. These two ideals and possibilities we have
\nsuccessively to consider.   <\/p>\n

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