Article February 11, 1961 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from James T. Shotwell

Dr. James T. Shotwell in a guest editorial published in the Saturday Review New York, New York

Freedom...is the supreme issue in the world today....[It] is reflected in the advance from superstition to religion, from tribalism and feudal anarchy to the rule of law in the national state. ...The only prosperity, the only happiness for mankind, will be found in the interplay of human interests—in short, in the application of the golden rule....

The national sovereignties... are being forced by a greater sovereignty, that of science, to merge their interests and respect the rights of others. It is to safeguard those interests and rights that the City of Man raises its shining ramparts over the national state system which history prepared as the embodiment, imperfect but inspiring, of the aspirations of man for independence and freedom.

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