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shall submit the same to the arbitration of all the signatory 

 nations, and that they shall all pledge themselves to enforce 

 the decisions of such a federal council of state. Out of this 

 would come a possibility of reduced armaments as other 

 nations joined the federation. Now, the most important wars 

 of the coming century will be the civil wars, and the difficulty 

 of civil war is to get an army to fight its own countrymen. 

 But this will be remedied by all the signing Governments 

 undertaking to transfer or exchange troops with one another. 

 Thereby in the future we will evolve a still more perfect 

 system of enforcing law and order, and assisting liberty. 



When the national war ceases the only need of an army will 

 be as a superior police force. 



Thus the council of nations will become the central govern- 

 ment of the world. Evolution points to centralisation to 

 create co-operation, and local government to preserve com- 

 petition, so that we must evolve a national council of all nations 

 to act as a privy council in all inter-state matters, so any civil 

 war arising out of riot will in future be under the control of 

 the central council, to whom the nations will look for protec- 

 tion. Thus as time passes, and nation after nation will 

 join this national federation of the future, it will grow 

 to form an unbiassed court, made up of the wisest heads of 

 all nations, who will have to decide the merits of the case, 

 and it will become the controller of all the armies of 

 civilisation, and will be able to enforce their decrees. Of 

 course this will require from 500 to 1,000 years. I think I 

 have now done all I can to outline the most probable manner 

 of evolution that my Table III. may point out as the probable 

 lines of the most prominent features of the next five hundred 

 or one thousand years of evolution. 



Without entering into detail, which it is not my intention 

 to do, I will therefore point out only one more fact before 

 putting down my pen for the present. That is, that when we 

 realise that it takes forty-five years to amass from ^2,000 to 

 ^2,500 of capital, so as to enable a nation to support one bread- 

 winner at a wage of 405. per week, as this is the capital value 

 that has to be reserved every forty -five years to keep up or re- 

 new an income of 100 per annum, we see how modern warfare 

 is nothing but an unpardonable and unwarranted form of 

 murder, by the destruction of future livelihoods ; and if it Ts 



