The Advent. February 1950

For them the calm the light the power the bliss the freedom the wideness the heights of knowledge the seas of Ananda. [...] A strong surviving element of oligarchy remained in the preponderant place assigned to the five great Powers in the Security Council and was clinched by the device of the veto; these were concessions to a sense of realism and the necessity of recognising the actual condition of things and the results of the second great war and could not perhaps have been avoided but they have done more to create [...] One of the possibilities suggested at the time was the growth of contnental agglomerates a united Europe some kind of a combine of the peoples of the AmeriCan continent under the leadership of the United States even possibly in the resurgence of Asia and its drive towards independence from the dominance of the European peoples a drawing together for seldefensive combination of the nation [...] The acceptance by Europe and America of the Asiatic resurgence and the eventual total liberation of the Oriental peoples as also the downfall of Japan which figured at one time and indeed actually presented itself to the world as the liberator and leader of a free Asia against the domination of the West have removed this dangerous possibility. [...] The thesis we have undertaken to establish of the drive of Nature towards larger agglomerations and the final establishment of the largest of all and the ultimate union of the world's peoples still remains unaltered: this is evidently the line which the future of the human race demands and which conflicts and perturbations however ilkunense may delay even as they may modify greatly the forms it