In this way, peoples, States, economic bodies, become grouped together
in formations that are very various in shape and character, and every
part of mankind becomes so linked with the other parts, that each
is conscious of the life of the other pulsing through its own daily
interests. A league of nations is the outcome,--arising out of root
impulses that correspond to actual realities. There will be no need to
"institute" one, built up solely on legal theories of right. [8]
To anyone, who is thinking of these things in terms of real life,
it must seem of especial importance, that the aims here set before
the body social, whilst having a meaning for the whole of mankind
collectively, are such as can be put in practice by any single
corporate community, no matter what may be the attitude adopted by
other countries for the time being.--If one corporate community has
organised itself into its three natural divisions, the administratures
of the three divisions can act together as a single body, and thus
perfectly well form relations even with outside communities that are
not yet prepared to adopt the threefold order themselves. Whoever leads
the way with the threefold order, will be furthering the common aim
of all mankind. What actually has to be done, will be carried through
by that strength which an aim brings with it in practical life, when
it is rooted in the actual guiding forces of humanity,--rather than
by diplomatic agreements, or drafting schemes at conferences. It is
on a basis of reality that this aim is conceived in thought. It is
one to be pursued in the real action of life at any and every point
amongst the communities of men.
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