Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Constitution for the United States of the World
Let diplomats brood over the proposed articles of union. Let them weigh a feather against a cobweb, split a hair into tenths, quarrel with commas, put capitals to the sword, give a crutch to every halting word. While this goes on, the great world will think, and grow brotherly in thinking about the same thing.
Let the press - true voice of national vanity - spend itself in loud attack, coy retreat, fair compromise or frank acceptance. While each people is thus nursing the wound to its own vanity, it hears groans in the neighboring ward - and the two invalids are quickly convalescent.
Let the senate chambers ring with argument, with denuncia tion, with prophecy. Each shall hear the echoes from the other, and in the end only one effective word will rise above the hubbub - the fair word, compromise.
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