Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.

Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.

In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.

He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.

Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.