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Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/Other Editions/The Ideal of Human Unity_SAICE_1962 Edn/The Need Of Administrative Unity.htm
Chapter XXVI   THE NEED OF ADMINISTRATIVE UNITY         In almost all current ideas of the first step towards international organisation, it is taken for granted that the nations will continue to enjoy their separate existence and liberties and will only leave to international action the prevention of war, the regulation of dangerous disputes, the power of settling great international questions which they cannot settle by ordinary means. It is impossible that the development should stop there; this first step would necessarily lead to others which could travel only in one direction. Whatever authority were established, if it is to be a true authority in any degree and not a mere
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/Other Editions/The Ideal of Human Unity_SAICE_1962 Edn/The Imperfection Of Past Aggregates.htm
Chapter II   THE IMPERFECTION OF PAST AGGREGATES         The whole process of Nature depends on a balancing and a constant tendency to harmony between two poles of life, the individual whom the whole or aggregate nourishes and the whole or aggregate which the individual helps to constitute. Human life forms no exception to the rule. Therefore the perfection of human life must involve the elaboration of an as yet unaccomplished harmony between these two poles of our existence, the individual and the social aggregate. The perfect society will be that which most entirely favours the perfection of the individual; the perfection of the individual will be incomplete if it does not help to
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/Other Editions/The Ideal of Human Unity_SAICE_1962 Edn/The Small Free Unit And The Larger Concentrated Unity.htm
Chapter XI   THE SMALL FREE UNIT AND THE LARGER CONCENTRATED UNITY         If we consider the possibilities of a unification of the human race on political, administrative and economic lines, we see that a certain sort of unity or first step towards it appears not only to be possible, but to be more or less urgently demanded by an underlying spirit and sense of need in the race. This spirit has been created largely by increased mutual knowledge and close communication, partly by the development of wider and freer intellectual ideals and emotional sympathies in the progressive mind of the race. The sense of need is partly due to the demand for the satisfaction of these ideals and sym
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/Other Editions/The Ideal of Human Unity_SAICE_1962 Edn/Forms Of Government.htm
Chapter XXIII   FORMS OF GOVERNMENT         The idea of a world-union of free nations and empires, loose at first, but growing closer-knit with time and experience, seems at first sight the most practicable form of political unity; it is the only form indeed which would be immediately practicable, supposing the will to unity to become rapidly effective in the mind of the race. On the other hand, it is the State idea which is now dominant. The State has been the most successful and efficient means of unification and has been best able to meet the various needs which the progressive aggregate life of societies has created for itself and is still creating. It is, besides, the exped
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/Other Editions/The Ideal of Human Unity_SAICE_1962 Edn/War And The Need Of Economic Unity.htm
Chapter XXV   WAR AND THE NEED OF ECONOMIC UNITY         The military necessity, the pressure of war between nations and the need for prevention of war by the assumption of force and authority in the hands of an international body, World-State or Federation or League of Peace, is that which will most directly drive humanity in the end towards some sort of international union. But there is behind it another necessity which is much more powerful in its action on the modern mind, the commercial and industrial, the necessity born of economic interdependence. Commercialism is a modern sociological phenomenon; one might almost say, that is the whole phenomenon of modern society. The econ
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/Other Editions/The Ideal of Human Unity_SAICE_1962 Edn/The United States Of Europe.htm
Chapter X   THE UNITED STATES OF EUROPE         We have had to dwell so long upon the possibilities of the Empire-group because the evolution of the imperial State is a dominating phenomenon of the modern world; it governs the political tendencies of the later part of the nineteenth and earlier part of the twentieth century very much as the evolution of the free democratised nation governed the age which preceded ours. The dominant idea of the French Revolution was the formula of the free and sovereign people and, in spite of the cosmopolitan element introduced into the revolutionary formula by the ideal of fraternity, this idea became in fact the assertion of the free, independent,
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/Other Editions/The Ideal of Human Unity_SAICE_1962 Edn/Nation And Empire - Real And Political Unities.htm
Chapter V   NATION AND EMPIRE : REAL AND POLITICAL UNITIES         The problem of the unification of mankind resolves itself into two distinct difficulties. There is the doubt whether the collective egoisms already created in the natural evolution of humanity can at this time be sufficiently modified or abolished and whether even an external unity in some effective form can be securely established. And there is the doubt whether, even if any such external unity can be established, it will not be at the price of crushing both the free life of the individual and the free play of the various collective units already created in which there is a real and active life and substituting a St
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/Other Editions/The Ideal of Human Unity_SAICE_1962 Edn/The Possibility Of A World-Empire.htm
Chapter IX   THE POSSIBILITY OF A WORLD-EMPIRE         The progress of the imperial idea from the artificial and constructive stage to the position of a realised psychological truth controlling the human mind with the same force and vitality which now distinguish the national idea above all other group motives, is only a possibility, not a certainty of the future. It is even no more than a vaguely nascent possibility and so long as it has not emerged from this inchoate condition in which it is at the mercy of the much folly of statesmen, the formidable passions of great human masses, the obstinate self-interest of established egoisms, we can have no surety that it will not even now
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/Other Editions/The Ideal of Human Unity_SAICE_1962 Edn/A Postscript Chapter.htm
A POSTSCRIPT CHAPTER         At the time when this book was being brought to its close, the first attempt at the foundation of some initial hesitating beginning of the new world-order, which both governments and peoples had begun to envisage as a permanent necessity if there was to be any order in the world at all, was under debate and consideration but had not yet been given a concrete and practical form; but this had to come and eventually a momentous beginning was made. It took the name and appearance of what was called a League of Nations. It was not happy in its conception, well-inspired in its formation or destined to any considerable longevity or a supremely successful ca
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/Other Editions/The Ideal of Human Unity_SAICE_1962 Edn/The Conditions Of A Free World-Union.htm
Chapter XXXI   THE CONDITIONS OF A FREE WORLD-UNION         A free world-union must in its very nature be a complex unity based on a diversity and that diversity must be based on free self-determination. A mechanical unitarian system would regard in its idea the geographical groupings of men as so many conveniences for provincial division, for the convenience of administration, much in the same spirit as the French Revolution reconstituted France with an entire disregard of old natural and historic divisions. It would regard mankind as one single nation and it would try to efface the old separative national spirit altogether; it would arrange its system probably by continents and