that nations must be educated towards that spirit, if a practicable plan
and an adequate number of qualified educators are not available. The
habit of treating such questions in an unrealistic and perfunctory way
is bound to lead to failure, disillusionment and cynicism. Education
towards world citizenship, moreover is not merely a matter for the
schools, It is connected with all the great issues of political and
economic life and could only be solved if the political nations of the
world would adopt detailed plans based on identical principles.(5)
Prof. Cobban has expressed the same view:
The solution to which we are apparently forced is the creation of a
World state.(6)
Laski appealed for the establishment of "a universal social order
which shall be composed of members hailing from the four corners
of the earth."(7)
W.A. Gould is thinking on the same lines as the following
quotation shows:
That our primary concern should be for 'home and country' is natural
and proper but we cannot escape the implications of membership in
world society.(8)
Again:
So far there has been little enough evidence of a generally felt sense of
international unity embracing all mankind. It is too early yet to hope
for this; but that particular groups of individuals in various countries
have it in a very practical degree, is the guarantee that in due time the
active experience of world co-operation may be more widely shared.(9)
The more deeply modern thinkers probe into the situation the more
convinced they become of the fact that the ultimate salvation of
mankind lies in moulding the entire humanity into one single
community. Warren Wagar has recently published an informative
book the very title of which, The City of Man, suggests the theme he
discusses. He has quoted extensively contemporary historians,
scientists, theologians, thinkers, statesmen etc., of international
fame prophesying the establishment of a world order before long.
The chapter World Government in his book opens with the remarks:
If it is the "ultimate question" before mankind, world government is
also the most thoroughly explored aspect of the nascent world
civilization in recent books on world problems. Predicting or
proposing a world constitution was for several years during and after
the Second World War a major national pastime of especially the
English-speaking intelligentsia. In the late 1940 's the world government
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