Science Altered the Scale
The development of Science had altered the scale of human affairs. By means of rapid mechanical traction, it had brought men nearer together, so much nearer socially, economically, physically, that the old separations into nations and kingdoms were no longer possible, a newer, wider synthesis was not only needed, but imperatively demanded.
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Context: The narrator on the politics of the age that led to war.
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Source: Chapter IV. The German Air-Fleet