ABSTRACT
Any man born in a particular country and citizen of a particular State, always acquires through his education, contacts, and the examples which he encounters, a more or less settled habit of looking beyond the limits of his own well-being and of merging his own interests in the interests of the community to which he belongs. Montesquieu says that institutions mould men. Therefore this tendency which fosters a patriotism beyond the limits of one’s own fatherland, this habit of considering the interests of Europe instead of national interests, will be a natural development among those who compose the European parliament, once it is established. For every million persons in Europe who know how to read and write there should sit as their representatives in the House of Commons of the great parliament, a man of business, a scientist, an administrator and a lawyer.
