ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that the economic and industrial evolution of the world has overturned the old conditions of human existence. This fact will appear more clearly when come to consider some of the problems which present themselves. In the region of industry and economics no country is free to do as it pleases, simply because the evolution of industry, agriculture and commerce has far-reaching effects in all the nations. Limited at first to raw materials and agricultural products, the struggle between East and West has gradually extended itself to industrial products. The struggle between the East and West whose development have just denoted is only at its commencement, and but suspect the issue. The dreamers of perpetual peace, of universal disarmament, imagine wars to be the most disastrous of struggles. France, essentially an agricultural country, has been able to prolong the struggle, a sufficiently temporary and fictitious.
