You must understand that we all look forward to an eventual unification of the world as one nation.

That, no doubt, will be the ultimate form of society, and will realize certain economic advantages over the present federal system of autonomous nations.

Meanwhile, however, the present system works so nearly perfectly that we are quite content to leave to posterity the completion of the scheme.

There are, indeed, some who hold that it never will be completed, on the ground that the federal plan is not merely a provisional solution of the problem of human society, but the best ultimate solution." "How do you manage," I asked, "when the books of any two nations do not balance?
Supposing we import more from France than we export to her." "At the end of each year," replied the doctor, "the books of every nation are examined.

If France is found in our debt, probably we are in the debt of some nation which owes France, and so on with all the nations.