My contention is that the people who possess these good qualities in the greatest degree are the most civilized.

Now civilization, as mentioned in the previous chapter, was born in the East and travelled westward.

The law of nature is spiral, and inasmuch as Eastern civilization taught the people of the West, so Western civilization, which is based upon principles native to the East, will return to its original source.

No nation can now remain shut up within itself without intercourse with other nations; the East and the West can no longer exist separate and apart.

The new facilities for transportation and travel by land and water bring all nations, European, American, Asiatic and African, next door to each other, and when the art of aviation is more advanced and people travel in the air as safely as they now cross oceans, the relationships of nations will become still closer.
What effect will this have on mankind?
The first effect will be, I should say, greater stability.