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however, is only one phase of a like movement that most ad- 

 vanced countries can now boast of. 



As one then listened to the swells of music, threaded one's 

 way amongst the flower exhibits, questioned the producers 

 of manufactured articles as to the methods pursued, one began 

 to realize that the once disjointed units of humanity had al- 

 ready come together to constitute "Society as an organism." 



Fifth, the past century may be said wholly to have witnessed 

 the evolution and adoption of the international postal, rail- 

 road, telegraph, and telephone systems, while the closing days 

 of it fittingly witnessed also the practical application of vnre- 

 less telegraphy. In spite of competitor's greed, and efforts 

 to commandeer these for selfish ends, these inventions have 

 served to hasten more the socialistic unification of mankind, 

 than any other combined agencies. 



During the past ten millennia of human history man might 

 appropriately have been defined as "the animal of war and 

 bloodshed." Unquestionably the keen competition and ac- 

 companying proenvironal efforts toward highest eflSciency that 

 such war stimulated or involved have contributed greatly, though 

 in bloody fashion, toward man's present evolutionary state. 

 For the more terrible the bloodshed that marked the career 

 of a Tethmosis, a Cambyses, an Alexander, a Caligula, a Jeng- 

 hiz, a Tamerlane, a Napoleon, the more did thinking humanity 

 proenviron a higher and truer life. The past decade has wit- 

 nessed the welcome sight of whole nations repudiating their 

 war lords; of determined protests against military expenditures; 

 of the erection of a temple of peace where arbitration prin- 

 ciples can be scientifically discussed; the binding together of 

 socialist workers into international committees whose sacred 

 aim is to prevent international feuds. The "military busi- 

 ness" men, like the competitive commercialists, have fought 

 hard to. prevent such a peaceful close to their career, but even 

 they begin to foresee the end. 



Sixth, hospitals, asylums, and sanitaria are the gradual and 

 steady growth of the past three centuries. These have done 

 much alike to record human sympathy and to make mankind 



