Within Each Such Social Group, A Feeling

The Idea Of Eternity Lives In All Of Us. We Thirst To Live In A Belief Which Raises Our Small Personality To A Higher Coherence - A Coherence Which Is Human And Yet Superhuman, Absolute And Yet Steadily Growing And Developing, Ideal And Yet Real.

The Main Concept Is That Of An International Solidarity Expressed In Practice Through Worldwide Division Of Labor: Free Trade Is The Principal Point In The Program Of Internationalism.

Only Recently, During The Nineteenth Century, And Then Only In Europe, Do We Meet Forms Of The State Which Have Been Created By A Deliberate National Feeling.

Internationalism Is A Community Theory Of Society Which Is Founded On Economic, Spiritual, And Biological Facts. It Maintains That Respect For A Healthy Development Of Human Society And Of World Civilization Requires That Mankind Be Organized Internationally. Nationalities Should Form The Constitutive Links In A Great World Alliance, And Must Be Guaranteed An Independent Life In The Realm Of The Spiritual And For Locally Delimited Tasks, While Economic And Political Objectives Must Be Guided Internationally In A Spirit Of Peaceful Cooperation For The Promotion Of Mankind's Common Interests.

No State Is Free From Militarism, Which Is Inherent In The Very Concept Of The Sovereign State. There Are Merely Differences Of Degree In The Militarism Of States.