WORLD FEDERATION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 April 1941, Page 7

WORLD FEDERATION

FOR ESTABLISHING PEACE. DIVERSITY AS AN IDEAL. We have just received another of those very reasonable manifestoes demanding the establishment of a world federation for the sake of peace; and we wonder if some people will never see the inherent impossibility of such designs, says the "New English Weekly." Why should men ever unite for the sake of unity itself? They will not even unite against a common danger such as war for a minute longer than their peril seems imminent. It is things external to men that unite .them, a common task or a vision of something' concrete that they can -'achieve together. What our own people demonstrably need, even if they do not yet want it. is to regain their hold on the sources of life itself, from which they are being progressively separated. What renascence of human culture might become possible if the rulingraces of mankind should ever humble themselves to accept with gratitude mb their true place as men 'n lac T-ier of nature. Upon this it is unseemly to speculate while their crazy power-structures are ’ toppling down in flames, and all their emotions attLi.-'C-d to retaliate with ever fiercer devastation.. But this much may be said; if men should ever renounce the false and artificial goals now leading them to ruin, the sacrifice would seem fearful—and fearful it will be in any case. But if through this ( they find their way. to the love and service of their cosmic mother, the loss will be illusory and the gains as miraculous as life itself. For instead of one of the present cultures covering the earth, with a single deathly and mechanical parasitism, innumerable cultures will arise in different regions, free, genial and joyous, and as various and unpredictable as all natural creations or true works of art.