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\nCHAPTER XXII <\/b><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nWORLD UNION OR WORLD STATE<\/b><\/font>
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\nT<\/font>HIS<\/font> then in principle is the history of the growth of
\nthe State. It is a history of strict unification by the development
\nof a central authority and of a growing uniformity of administration, legislation, social and economic life and culture and the
\nchief means of culture, education and language. In all the central
\nauthority becomes more and more the determining and regulating power. The process culminates by the transformation of this
\ngoverning sole authority or sovereign power from the rule of the
\ncentral executive man or the capable class into that of a body
\nwhose proposed function is to represent the thought and will of
\nthe whole community. The change represents in principle an
\nevolution from a natural and organic to a rational and mechanically organised state or society. An intelligent centralised unification aiming at a perfect rational efficiency replaces a loose and
\nnatural unity whose efficiency is that of life developing with a
\ncertain spontaneity its organs and powers under the pressure of
\ninner impulse and the needs of the environment and the first
\nconditions of existence. A rational, ordered, strict uniformity
\nreplaces a loose oneness full of natural complexities and variations. The intelligent will of the whole society expressed in a
\ncarefully thought-out law and ordered regulation replaces its
\nnatural organic will expressed in a mass of customs and institutions which have
\ngrown up as the result of its nature and temperament. In the last perfection of the state, a carefully devised,
\nin the end a giant machinery productive and regulative replaces <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nthe vigour and fertility of life with the natural simplicity of its
\ngreat lines and the obscure, confused, luxuriant complexity of
\nits details. The State is the masterful but arbitrary and intolerant
\nscience and reason of man that successfully takes the place of
\nthe intuitions and evolutionary experimentations of Nature; intelligent organisation replaces natural organism. <\/font><\/p>\n

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

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\nThe World-State must now either be brought about by a
\nmutual understanding or by the force of circumstances and a
\nseries of new and disastrous shocks. For the old still-prevailing
\norder 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
\ncrises through which Nature will effect in her own violent way <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nthe working out of the necessity which she has evolved. There
\nmay be in the process a maximum of loss and suffering through
\nthe clash of national and imperial egoisms or else a minimum
\nif reason and good will prevail. To that reason two alternative
\npossibilities and therefore two ideals present themselves, a
\nWorld-State founded upon the principle of centralisation and,
\nuniformity, a mechanical and formal unity, or a world union
\nfounded upon the principle of liberty and variation in a free
\nand intelligent unity. These two ideas and possibilities we have
\nsuccessively to consider. <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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