If political contest within a World-State were substituted for war, imagination would soon accustom itself to the new situation, as it has accustomed itself to the absense of duelling.

• 如果能在一个世界性的国家里采取政治斗争来代替战争，人的想象力就会习惯于新的情况，正象它曾经习惯于没有决斗一样。