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a perpetual Congress, of nations, a single system of weights 

 and measures, a single trunk language, and a paramount inter- 

 national law! Disunity on this planet has been doomed by 

 radio. Law and order will necessarily have to be maintained, 

 not merely here and there, but everywhere on a tenth-second 

 world. If the great war has brought death to, say, twenty 

 millions of persons, and horror and hate to many more, yet it 

 has brought the reality of ethereal contact, and the potential 

 future blessings of almost instantaneous intercommunication, 

 through radio signalling, to all the children of men. 



