ABSTRACT
The world is a construct of human arts, associations, and sciences. World order may readily be conceived as cosmos, community, or the liberating arts. The sense in which the impact of world order has influenced the last transition is apparent in the evolution of rights and obligations in our institutions and our theories. During the period in which issues of cosmic order seemed to require nothing more than patience and intelligence in fitting innumerable facts into the Newtonian conception of world order, the issues of communal order seemed to require nothing more than education and constitutions to make communities free, equal, and democratic. The impact of world order on world community is distinct from the development and application of the conception of world community. The Renaissance revolted against the verbalism of logic and the sophistical questions and insolubilia in which the study of quantities and things became involved—or, more accurately, took their beginning.
