ABSTRACT
Pieter Hendrik Eijkman's International Academies 'should be granted particular rights and powers, by which they could have an official role in international government'. The particularly contentious issue was the location of what became the Peace Palace which the government chose to locate on a spot that was incompatible with the World Capital. The World Capital was more than a coherent whole that consisted of scientific organizations, research, and a Peace Palace. It also had a political dimension. Hence the World Capital, as a collection of Academies in all sorts of relevant fields, was really meant to be a capital in the sense of the seat of a global administration. It would not merely organize science but truly govern the world. When conferences in various branches of science and technology began to become recurrent phenomena, they began to be institutionalized. Eijkman regarded the ever increasing international organization of science as inevitable process that was advancing with the necessity of natural law.
