THE NEW LEVIATHAN 4111 



extra-territorial interests and the creative potentialities 

 of their constituents. A more hopeful source of leader- 

 ship is in the great social functions of mankind, where 

 there is greater unity of purpose; where common inter- 

 ests are more easily recognized; where vital supplies 

 are more obviously drawn from world-wide domains, 

 or at least from domains wider than the state; where 

 the habit of thinking in terms of international coopera- 

 tion is more prevalent; and where a cooperative orga- 

 nization, on an idealistic international basis, is already 

 initiated. 



Science, religion, art, education, commerce, and 

 manual labor are social functions of this character. 

 These great systems of vital exchange have long felt the 

 impulse to international cooperation, and their instinc- 

 tive response to it has already yielded results which 

 demonstrate that, physically and spiritually, they are 

 far better fitted to assume the judicial, legislative, and 

 executive functions of international life, than the old 

 political systems, with all their historic animosities. 

 Their ability to perform these services will greatly in- 

 crease with the fuller consciousness of their mission. 

 And to accomplish this mission, their delegates, through 

 the agency of international congresses, must endeavor to 

 define the conditions essential to the regulation and 

 control of constructive international relations, and sum- 

 mons their respective states to provide the necessary 

 ways and means to translate their demands into pur- 

 poseful action. 



