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thirty-three per cent., have demonstrated the logi- 

 cal results of the system of international anarchy as 

 the method of obtaining security for life and pro- 

 perty. But federation and political organization, 

 which are based on a universal instead of a unilat- 

 eral point of view have, wherever they have been 

 instituted, produced security except against at- 

 tack from the outside. With the federation of the 

 human race there will be no "outside" left, and 

 political security for the first time in human history 

 will be complete. 



Other poHtical benefits of world federation will 

 be no less important. The political institutions 

 of all States have been deeply affected by the 

 condition of international anarchy. It is clear 

 that the greater the social insecurity, the more it 

 is necessary to surrender powers and rights to the 

 central government, and this political centraliza- 

 tion has at least three disastrous consequences: 

 bureaucracy, the destruction of individuality, 

 and the non-differentiation of social functions. 

 With the disappearance of the imperative need 

 for centralization in governments, the way will be 

 open again for individual initative to replace the 

 deadening hand and red tape of bureaucracy. 

 The principle of home rule and local self-govern- 

 ment can be extended to its widest limits and 

 differentiation of social functions can be carried 

 on until the central power is relieved of all func- 

 tions except its essential duties of the protection 

 of life and property (police and justice). 



