Evidently, the increasing interdependence of the nations is creating new international rights and duties, but there is no World Legislature to recognize and legalize them; there is no World Court to interpret and apply them; and there is no World Executive to enforce and vitalize them. Precisely here appears one of the most obscure and, at the same time, one of the most potent causes of the war. The economic and industrial organization of the world has far outgrown the political organization of the world. And in spite of all efforts to keep the peace, this will continue an active cause of war until there has been provided for the new world life an adequate body politic. Until then governments will undertake, by military power, to make, interpret, or enforce a law of nations to please themselves; and this seizure of civil functions on the part of armed force is war; it is an attempt to make might right; it is the law of the jungle; it is the abnegation of civilization; it is anarchy between nations. Now that the world is coming to self-consciousness, it must accept the responsibility of its future, and take intelligent direction of it. The new tendency toward world integration is permanent because it is due to new conditions which are permanent. This cosmic movement toward coördination and integration is the very essence of the new civilization which is reshaping the world. Nations and individuals have unconsciously, and, therefore, unintelligently, and slowly adapted themselves to these changed and changing conditions. Now is the accepted time to undertake a readjustment which shall be _conscious_ and, therefore, _intelligent_—a broad-minded “coöperation with the real tendency of the world.” which Carlyle called the “insight of genius.” The new world life means, sooner or later, a world consciousness, a world conscience, a world ethics, and a World Court, together with the other departments of an organized political life embodied in a Federation of the World. RURAL COÖPERATION IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES BY GEORGE K. SHAW In the Annual Reports for 1914 of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, there are some interesting data upon the social effects of Coöperation in Europe. This report was prepared by the Rev. Chas. O. Gill, Field Investigator for the Commission on the Church and Social Service. In making his investigations he visited no less than twelve countries and gained information as to two others from members of the Commission who visited them.