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Empire has done fairly adequately of recent years 

 for more than one-fourth of the earth's land area. 

 Any future international body which will undertake 

 to apply the balanced principles of struggle and co- 

 operation on a global basis must, among its other 

 qualifications, avoid certain outstanding mistakes of 

 the present League. 



It cannot be really co-operative if it is basically a 

 league of victor nations formed to administer a puni- 

 tive peace treaty, for this is hardly a step in advance 

 of the time-honored national alliances for defense 

 and offense, which are co-operative only to be de- 

 structive. It must not be dominated in any depart- 

 ment by the representatives of any one nation, not 

 even when that nation is as intelligently, and shall 

 I say selfishly, benevolent as England and its domin- 

 ions today. It must be so organized as to secure and 

 hold adherence from the great majority of nations. 

 As a step toward this end, the biologist's international 

 system must be a dynamic organization capable of 

 and designed to effect changes rather than set up 

 to preserve any given status quo, regardless how 

 favorable for the predominant powers. 



Biology teaches the inevitability of change, if it 

 teaches anything. We must have some device in our 

 system which will allow for needed changes, some 

 means of making those compromises at which the 



