ABSTRACT
A state may comprise several nations; and a large proportion of its population may be alien from the governing race or races. But, although a state is in a sense an artificial entity, it cannot endure for any lengthened period, unless it is supported by the operation of natural causes among its citizens. In order that a world-state should attain a condition of stable equilibrium, it would be necessary that the constituent communities generally should be satisfied with the governmental structure and that the governing body should be capable of exercising a restraining authority throughout every quarter of the globe. Any general and serious attempt to establish a world-state, although it would be impotent to create the desired new organization, would tend towards the destruction of the systems already in existence. Instead of creating a world-community it would weaken the cohesion of the larger social aggregates which have been developed by the labours and sacrifices of past ages.
