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| I. | The Probable Future of Mankind | 1 |
| II. | The Project of a World State | 42 |
| III. | The Enlargement of Patriotism to a World State | 68 |
| IV. | The Bible of Civilization; Part One | 95 |
| V. | The Bible of Civilization; Part Two | 118 |
| VI. | The Schooling of the World | 139 |
| VII. | College, Newspaper and Book | 166 |
| VIII. | The Envoy | 193 |
| Index | 199 |
The present outlook of human affairs is one thatadmits of broad generalizations and that seems torequire broad generalizations. We are in one ofthose phases of experience which become cardinalin history. A series of immense and tragic eventshave shattered the self-complacency and challengedthe will and intelligence of mankind. That easygeneral forward movement of human affairs whichfor several generations had seemed to justify thepersuasion of a necessary and invincible progress,progress towards greater powers, greater happiness,and a continual enlargement of life, has beenchecked violently and perhaps arrested altogether.The spectacular catastrophe of the Great War hasrevealed an accumulation of destructive forces inour outwardly prosperous society, of which few ofus had dreamt; and it has also revealed a profoundincapacity to deal with and restrain these forces.The two years of want, confusion, and indecision[Pg 2]that have followed the Great War in Europe andAsia, and the uncertainties that have disturbed lifeeven in the comparatively un