"We are at present working discreetly but with all our might, to wrest this mysterious force called 'sovereignty' out of the clutches of the local national states of our world. And all the time we are denying with our lips what we are doing with our hands, because to impugn the sovereignty of the local national states of the world is still a heresy for which a statesman or a publicist can be, perhaps not quite burnt at the stake, but certainly ostracized and discredited." --Arnold Toynbee, Scientific Study of International Relations at Copenhagen in June 1931, (published in INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, December 1931)
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As we are seeing today.
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Linda, for those that read it, Scripture is frighteningly accurate on where we find ourselves.
Delete"We are at present working discreetly but with all our might, to wrest this mysterious force called 'sovereignty' out of the clutches of the local national states of our world. And all the time we are denying with our lips what we are doing with our hands, because to impugn the sovereignty of the local national states of the world is still a heresy for which a statesman or a publicist can be, perhaps not quite burnt at the stake, but certainly ostracized and discredited."
ReplyDelete--Arnold Toynbee, Scientific Study of International Relations at Copenhagen in June 1931, (published in INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, December 1931)