The New World-Order

Abstract

EVENTS of the post-War period are forcibly and unmistakably driving home the lesson that the future welfare of the human race is vitally dependent upon world co-operation. The days of self-sufficient nationalism, of splendid isolation, of Monroe doctrines, are clearly numbered, and it is widely felt that the more quickly such venerable creeds are abandoned the brighter will become the prospect for civilisation at large. How soon events will force the political unity that, in some form or other, appears inevitable, it would be rash to prophesy; but if the process of unification is to succeed, it can only be upon a previous basis of intellectual sympathy and understanding. It is in the intense realisation of this cardinal fact that Prof. Marvin and his fellow-thinkers are striving to establish a wider outlook among the educated classes; and the signs indicate that they are meeting with an encouraging response even in the most conservative quarters. Personal contact between scholars of different countries is so sure a method of breaking down the barriers of ignorance and prejudice that the present difficulties of foreign travel are to be deplored; but such books as this and the previous volumes of the “Unity Series” show what might be done by the printed word if sufficient enthusiasm and funds were available.

The New World-Order.

Essays arranged and F. S. Marvin. (The Unity Series, 9.) Pp. vi + 188. (London: Oxford University Press, 1932.) 8s. 6d. net.