However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with agreed international law and means of enforcing the law, is inevitable.
Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.
If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.
Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction.
Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.
The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.
