Note 165 — IV Summary—Predictions

Here is an example: ‘Universal peace will come about one day, not because men will become better (one cannot hope for that) but because a new order of things, new science, new economic needs, will impose a state of peace on them, just as the very conditions of their existence formerly placed and maintained them in a state of war.’ (Anatole France, Sur la Pierre blanche.) Note the refusal, mentioned above, to believe in any possible betterment of the human soul.