lead, zinc, etc., ores; chalk, coal for coke, crude oil) should 

 be distributed to countries lacking them to advance indus- 

 trial development there: these countries could then return 

 manufactured goods to the countries providing the raw 

 materials on an exchange basis. 



It would greatly facilitate the universal use of scien- 

 tific techniques in economic development if agreement on 

 a universal language could be reached by all nations. A 

 world language could be made existent by starting its 

 teaching to primary school children now, when the working 

 population of the world would be provided with a uni- 

 versal spoken and written means of communication in less 

 than half a century. The most likely language to select as 

 a world language is English, in view of the large amount 

 of technological and scientific matter already written in 

 this language. But even agreement on the use of a few 

 major languages only, including English, German, Russian, 

 Hindu, and Chinese (the important dialects of the latter 

 three languages, of course), would considerably assist 

 world unification. Along with the teaching of a, or one of 

 several, common languages to all people, (the teaching 

 of present-day national languages could continue for long 

 enough to permit the intercommunication of individuals 

 of different ages in each nation), should go the teaching 

 of the important basic knowledge of humanity: viz., mod- 

 ern methods of food production and mining, the basic 

 manufacturing processes, world geography, an outline of 

 world history, basic mathematics and science, trading pro- 

 cedures, and the fundamental laws of psychological and 

 social behavior. Universal education would be readily 

 effected through the world-wide use of modern communi- 

 cation methods, primarily life-size television and movie 

 showings. 



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