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World-tate
            This consummation would mark definitely the creation of a
        World-State in place of the present international conditions. For
        it can be brought into truly effective existence only if the interna-
        tional authority became, not merely the arbiter of disputes, but
        the source of law and the final power behind their execution. For
        the execution of its decrees against recalcitrant countries or class-
        es, for the prevention of all kinds of strife not merely political but
        commercial, industrial and others or at least of their decision by
        any other ways than a peaceful resort to law and arbitration, for
        the suppression of any attempt at violent change and revolution,
        the World-State, even at its strongest, would still need the con-
        centration of all force in its own hands. While man remains what
        he is, force in spite of all idealisms and generous pacific hopes
        must remain the ultimate arbiter and governor of his life and its
        possessor the real ruler. Force may veil its crude presence at ordi-
        nary times and take only mild and civilised forms, — mild in com-
        parison, for are not the jail and the executioner still the two great
        pillars of the social order? — but it is there silently upholding the
        specious appearances of our civilisation and ready to intervene,
        whenever called upon, in the workings of the fairer but still feebler
        gods of the social cosmos. Diffused, force fulfils the free work-
        ings of Nature and is the servant of life but also of discord and
        struggle; concentrated, it becomes the guarantee of organisation
        and the bond of order.
                                                     CWSA 25: 483-84


        Abolition  of war
             War can only be abolished if national armies are abolished
        and even then with difficulty, by the development of some other
        machinery which humanity does not yet know how to form or,
        even if formed, will not for some time be able or willing perfectly
        to utilise. And there is no chance of national armies being abol-


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