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John B Orr

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	" After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed. "		John B Orr

	" As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies. "		John B Orr

	" 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. "		John B Orr

	" At the present time the control of oil-bearing land is an important factor in the foreign policy of some governments. "		John B Orr

	" During the last war when there was a market for everything that could be produced, the production capacity of Canada and the United States, which were outside the battle area, increased one hundred percent. "		John B Orr

	" Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival. "		John B Orr

	" 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. "		John B Orr

	" 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. "		John B Orr

	" 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. "		John B Orr

	" In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods. "		John B Orr

	" In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without. "		John B Orr

	" It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction. "		John B Orr

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

	" Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can. "		John B Orr

	" Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge. "		John B Orr

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