ABSTRACT
The nationalist myth, which attained tremendous power during the nineteenth century, has been put out of date by the revolutionary economic developments of the same period. The fear of war which hinders such surrender by the partisans of national sovereignty. National jealousies and false prides and fears stand in the way. But that is all the more reason to begin in good time to sap and mine these mental obstacles. The Socialist International and the International Federation of Trade Unions, in spite of all their future promise, are still little more than international sentiments, periodical debating societies, and sources of manifestos. The International Labour Organisation is hybrid, part representative of national Governments, part representative of organised Capital and Labour. Another line of future advance is the encouragement of genuinely international bodies, at first advisory and consultative, and their gradual endowment with real powers.
