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and quickly to the influence of the new forces and if they change
rapidly enough in their conceptions and actions, war may be
avoided. But it is always threatening and always in abeyance;
every error, every darkening of the consciousness increases this
threat.
And yet in the last analysis everything really depends on the
Divine Grace and we should look towards the future with confi-
dence and serenity, at the same time progressing as fast as we can.
CWM 10: 52-53 The Mother

War and Unity
In the trend to the formation of the World-State, however
subconscient, vague and formless it may yet be, military neces-
sity has begun to play the same large visible part. The peoples
of the world already possess a loose and chaotic unity of life in
which none can any longer lead an isolated, independent and self-
dependent existence. Each feels in its culture, political tenden-
cies and economic existence the influence and repercussion of
events and movements in other parts of the world. Each already
feels subtly or directly its separate life overshadowed by the life
of the whole. Science, international commerce and the political
and cultural penetration of Asia and Africa by the dominant West
have been the agents of this great change. Even in this loose unac-
knowledged and underlying unity the occurrence or the possibil-
ity of great wars has become a powerful element of disturbance
to the whole fabric, a disturbance that may one day become mor-
tal to the race. Even before the European war, the necessity of
avoiding or minimising a collision between one or two that might
prove fatal to all was keenly felt and various well-intentioned but
feeble and blundering devices were tentatively introduced which
had that end in view. Had any of these makeshifts been tolerably
effective, the world might long have remained content with its
present very unideal conditions and the pressing need of a closer

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