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THE narrow outlook which continues to characterize much of the controversy regarding sanctions, the refusal to face the implications of collective security, and the disposition to blame a mere organization such as the League of Nations for failures due to lack of courage and foresight on the part of statesmen in using the machinery ready to their hand, should dispel any optimism that we are beginning to grasp the essential principles upon which the future well-being of mankind must be constructed. We may well doubt that there is sufficient political sense and stability in Europe or Asia to make world recovery possible at all. To those who maintain that our whole civilization is slipping into disintegration and dissolution from which all our mastery of the material universe is impotent to preserve it, a satisfactory answer is not readily found.
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International Economics and Social Reconstruction. Nature 138, 341–343 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138341a0
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