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is visible and tangible exemplifcaton of the ben
ehts OF universal organization, government and doc
trne 1t is the truly international church of the
world, and perhaps the only truly international or
ganizaton of any kind in the world. In it's gigan-
tic fold OF three hundred millions of people it
embraces considerable part of the population in
every important country on the planet Its peren-
NAL growth and successful administration may
therefore we'll be studied and analysed constitut
ing basis for the structure that is to be erected for
the cosmopolitan regulation of those affairs in
which under modern conditions all the nations of
the world may be involved
1t is to the Church that the world owes the idea
OF the organization of corporation, which was un-
known in the common law of England The origin
of these instrumentalities for the development of
modern industries and businesses may be traced to
the organizations formed in the church for the
duct and administration of its affairs in all parts of
the world. From these beginnings have arisen the
gigantic organizations in corporate form of indus
try and commerce which have been the enabling
cause OF the great expansion and development of
modern business and trade; and these combinations
may be regarded as the precursors of what is to
become the worldwide League of Nations.
National isolation is no longer possible even in
political sense, under modern conditions. In re-
cent bulletin of war information is compiled the fol-
lowing interesting survey of the evolutionary proc
ess which shows the trend toward interdependence
among the nations:
THE chief agencies in drawing nations together
are railroads. steamships, telegraph lines and other
means of communication, and those aspects of in
dustry and commerce which make for interdepen-
dence. The last sixty years has increasing
multiplication of agencies for international express
sion and action. They have acted in the main in
ternttently and in separate fields but the result
has been to create marked tendency towards inter
natonallsm of thought and action. Since the hold
ing of the first International Sanitary Conference in
Ioo., 1,o1
varying frequency, to deal with such matters as
statistics, sugar Duties fisheries, weights and
ures, monetary standards, international posts and
teegraphs, the navigation of rivers submarine ca
bles private international law, the protection of
copyrights suppression of the liquor traffic in At
RIGA, the abolition of traffic in slaves, promotion of
the interests of the working classes, the advance
ment of international arbitration promotion of wo-
man suffrage, and various topics of purely scien-
tlhc, literary, historical interest. list which
makes no pretence to completeness shows 116 such
official international conferences, held under gov
eminent sanction or initiative, between the years
1850 and 1907 while the list of unofficial congresses
must be very much greater. 1t is said that in the
year 1907 alone there were over 100 such gather
ings, official and unofficial.
Resulting from these movements we have such
international bureaus and organizations as the In
ternational Postal Union the Union for the Protec
ton of Industrial Property (patents trade marks,
etc., the European Union of Railway Freight
In the political realm the growth of this evou-
ton is seen in the Concert of Europe which was
an attempt to settle international questions by the
concerted actions of the five or six great powers,
acting through joint understandings and diplomatic
communications.
But the Concert of Europe has now fallen by
the wayside, and is apparently to be replaced by
world combination consensus that will be Of
broaderscope and of frmer foundation. Its primary
objective will be the prevention of war through the
ms tr11n1 IF of infer
Arbitration for the adjustment of controversies be-
tween the several nations 1t will constitute what
Mr. Gladstone has called "the enhancement of the
idea of public right" based upon equality and es-
tablished and enforced by common will.
With the cooperation of the United States, says
Lord Bryce, "difeult as the effort to construct such
scheme will be, there is at least real hope of
cess Largely in vain will this war have been fought
and all these suerngs endured if the peoples of the
world to fall back into state of permanent
ALARM suspicion and hostility, each weighed down
by the frightful burden of armaments''
LLOYD GEORGE AND THE COALITION1sTs
Lloyd Georges expressed reasons for denying to
Ireland even that partition of Home Rule which pro-
vlded for the exclusion of six of the counties Of
Ulster are that the present conditions in Ireland
will not permit it. But since Lloyd George and his
ministry responsible for the creation of those
conditions of discomfort and unrest the Premier S
argument is perfect>specmen of the logical fallacy
of reasoning in a circle It is comparable with the
gyrations of dog chasing after his own tail. with
no possibility of in that exhibition of knetic
energy: