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Chapter VIII., has been the result of militarism 

 and the dominance of brute force in the world. 

 With the triumph of federation the chief reason for 

 denying justice to women will disappear and the 

 contribution of the moral and spiritual power of 

 womanhood to social progress will be of immense 

 importance. ' 



The effects of federation upon social theory will 

 be epoch-making. As long as the philosophy of 

 force is writ large in international relations, it 

 is hopeless to expect that the human race will have 

 a true theory of human society, but with the 

 establishment of federation in place of anarchy, 

 the way will at last be open for the establishment 

 of a sound social philosophy of mutual aid and 

 justice. 



World federation will make possible the estab- 

 lishment of a new individualism to replace the older 

 anti-social individualism of persons and of nations 

 — a new individualism founded upon the knowledge 

 of the advantages of association in procuring the 

 maximum of vital intensity for each individual. 

 The true interests of each individual, arranged in 

 the order of their importance, are — 



' Mme. Emma Pieczynska has expressed the relation of the 

 rise of woman to the establishment of justice as follows; "It 

 is always brute force which covets domination or which wishes 

 to maintain it: it is moral force which refuses to permit it. The 

 defenders of justice under all its forms serve in reality under 

 the same banner; their causes, in appearance diverse, are in 

 reality one." — Revue de la morale sociale, 1899, March ist, 

 p. 10. 



