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ANTICIPATIONS

life indeed we want police and roads and maps and market rules, "efficiency" and government, but for the supreme things we have to abandon the methods of self-preservation and get out of cliques, Academies, securities and all associations. It is not by canvassing and committees, by tricks and violence, but by the sheer power of naked reasonableness, by propaganda and open intention, by feats and devotions of the intelligence, that the great state of the future, the world-state, will come into being.

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