Abstract
THE February 1941 issue of Union, the monthly forum of the New Commonwealth Society, includes a number of articles on post-war reconstruction and the development of international relations. Mr. Duncan Hall, in an address on “What are the hopes of Lasting Peace?” asserts that only by a scientific understanding of the dynamic forces of human nature and human society, by a realistic education and a wise leadership, can we hope to speed up man's progress towards a lasting peace, based on the supremacy of reason and conscience. The problem is far more than one of finding the right institutions and making economic adjustments. It is essentially a problem of how to control the human forces, how to prevent uneven domestication, how to safeguard against mob situations that break down the conscience and reason of the individual and let loose his instinctive forces. Writing on “The Outline of a Long-Term Economic Plan”, Mr. W. L. Fairweather urges that the task ahead of us is to raise the level of consumption all over the world, and that many of the controls necessary in war will be extended and developed and remain as a permanent feature of the economic system. Mr. Channing-Pearce's address to the Oxford Branch of Federal Union on January 4 on “The Federal Faith” is included, with its conception of federation as concerned not only with politics but also with sociology and economics.
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International Relations and Federalism. Nature 147, 476 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147476a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/147476a0