Undoubtedly it will be found that, from the beginning of history down
to our own day, the few light-points of culture have extended
their rays farther and farther from their centres, have seized one
individual after another, and one people after another; and that this
diffusion of culture is still going on before our eyes.
And this was the first goal of Humanity, on its infinite path. Until
this is attained, until the existing culture of an age is diffused
over the whole habitable globe, and our race is made capable of the
most unlimited communication with itself, one nation, one quarter of
the globe, must await the other, on their common path, and each must
bring its centuries of apparent standing still or retrogradation, as
a sacrifice to the common bond, for the sake of which, alone, they
themselves exist.
When this first goal shall be attained, when everything useful that
has been discovered at one end of the earth shall immediately be
made known and imparted to all, then Humanity, without interruption,
without cessation, and without retrocession, with united force, and
with one step shall raise itself up to a degree of culture which we
lack power to conceive.
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By the institution of this one true State and the firm establishment
of internal peace, external war also, at least between true
States, will be rendered impossible.
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