ABSTRACT
The frontiers between the American-Western and the Soviet-Chinese-Eastern groups are not frontiers of a Great Wall type for one very significant reason: each of these groups represents an institutional system of combined economic and social organization that is capable of taking over the entire world and making it an all-inclusive o r b i s t e r r a r u m . The Indian type does not appear to have the capacity (or the desire) to take over the o r b i s t e r r a r u m , but it does appear to have the capacity to hold the other two groups apart, and if it should be able to do that long enough, perhaps an annealing process will become possible, integrating a
united world of different but reciprocating components.
