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erful central control could be satisfactory, effective or enduring,
even if it were much less loose, much more compact than any-
thing that seems at present likely to evolve in the near future.
There must be in the nature of things a second step, a movement
towards greater rigidity, constriction of national liberties and the
erection of a unique central authority with a uniform control over
the earth's peoples.
CWSA 25: 394 Sri Aurobindo

A giant dance of Shiva tore the past;
There was a thunder as of worlds that fall;
Earth was o'errun with fire and the roar of Death
Clamouring to slay a world his hunger had made;
There was a clangour of Destruction's wings:
The Titan's battle-cry was in my ears,
Alarm and rumour shook the armoured Night.
I saw the Omnipotent's flaming pioneers
Over the heavenly verge which turns towards life
Come crowding down the amber stairs of birth;
Forerunners of a divine multitude,
Out of the paths of the morning star they came
Into the little room of mortal life.

I saw them cross the twilight of an age,
The sun-eyed children of a marvellous dawn,
The great creators with wide brows of calm,
The massive barrier-breakers of the world
And wrestlers with destiny in her lists of will,
The labourers in the quarries of the gods,
The messengers of the Incommunicable,
The architects of immortality.
Savitri 343 Sri Aurobindo

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