A WORLD-STATE
SIR,—The best way to economise space is to present this letter as a series of propositions, and to leave it to your readers to think out their arguments, for and against, so as to arrive at their own con- clusions. Here are the propositions.
r. Only a World State can guarantee world peace.
2. The chief obstacle to the formation of a World State is national prejudice.
3. Nine out of ten of the human race are longing for peace.
4- When they understand that they must choose between a World State and recurrent war, misery and starvation, they will inevitably choose the World State.
5. At the end of the present war, the United States and the British Empire will be the most powerful nations in the world. If they have a mind to do so, they can together form the nucleus of a World State.
6. In the World State there will be complete religious freedom, but if the State is to hold together there must be a simple World Faith to which men and women of good will, of every religion and of none, can subscribe. The foundation of this Faith is "Love your neighbour
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