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is the perfect adaptation of the planet to our needs. 

 When we shall draw from the earth all the resources 

 which it is capable of furnishing us, wealth will 

 attain its highest point. Then, since intellectual 

 development follows economic development, and 

 depends upon the latter for its indispensable in- 

 struments, the greatest sum of wealth will give the 

 greatest amount of intelligence and the maximum 

 opportunity for a larger life. The organization of 

 the world, therefore, ought to be the first interest 

 of every individual, to which all other interests are 

 subordinated. The process of the expansion of 

 life through association, which has been a process 

 of evolution from the family to the horde, the tribe, 

 the city, the state, the nationality and the group 

 of civilizations, can attain its logical culmination 

 only through the federation of the world. 



Such are some of the advantages which make 

 world federation the unifying thesis of social reform. 

 We read often of an army of social workers. But 

 if we analyse the facts more closely, we find that 

 they constitute, not an army but rather a number 

 of guerilla bands, working at cross purposes and 

 often fighting each other instead of the common' 

 enemies of the human race — ignorance, disease, 

 vice, greed, poverty, and misery in all its forms. 

 When it is realized that the key to the solution of 

 all social problems is the establishment of justice, 

 social and international, these guerrilla bands of 

 social reformers, now struggling ineffectively 

 because of their lack of a common aim and of 



