ABSTRACT
It is possible to trace in the several experiments which have been made in world government the same variations with which we are familiar in the evolution of national States. This chapter begins by considering the nature of the checks and bars which have impeded what would seem to be a natural evolution from international anarchy towards international order. It may be contended that in the present century there has emerged a feeling of class solidarity which has been able to transcend the limits of the old Nation State. The whole trend of human progress has been one from social violence to social contract, and in reviving violence as a method of adjusting international conflict, the totalitarian States are adopting a method which is contrary to the whole tide and trend of human development. It is for this reason that the Nazi or the Facist affirmation of race or national self-consciousness is bound to fail in the end.
