Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.
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In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without.John Boyd Orr
Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.
John Boyd Orr
Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.
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There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty.
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As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.
John Boyd Orr
During the last war when there was a market for everything that could be produced, the production capacity of Canada and the United States, which were outside the battle area, increased one hundred percent.
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