Abstract
WHETHER it be only an expression of the lust of the human race to live, or whether it be a rationalization of the mass of actual happenings of our times, the notion of the persistence of society is taken for granted by the great majority of us. The threat to civilization which the present upheaval is so often supposed to represent leaves most of us rather 'cold'. All the same, if we succeed in shaking ourselves out of that state of mental inertia to which, as a nation, we are specially prone, we see clearly enough that, when we emerge from this hurly-burly, we have but two alternatives before us : either we drift once more into a state of laisser-faire, 'lose the peace' and await the next cataclysm, or we organize on a world basis so as to make war impossible.
PhÅ"nix
A Summary of the Inescapable Conditions of World Reorganization. By H. G. Wells. Pp. 192. (London : Martin Secker and Warburg, Ltd., 1942.) 8s. net.
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HORDER Phœnix. Nature 151, 374–375 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151374a0
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