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*"As '''sovereignty''' passes from smaller groups to larger groups, wars are lessened. That is, minor wars between smaller nations are lessened, but the potential for greater wars is increased as the nations wielding '''sovereignty''' become larger and larger. Presently, when all the world has been explored and occupied, when nations are few, strong, and powerful, when these great and supposedly '''sovereign nations''' come to touch borders, when only oceans separate them, then will the stage be set for major '''wars''', world-wide conflicts. So-called '''sovereign nations''' cannot rub elbows without generating conflicts and eventuating '''wars'''.

*"As '''sovereignty''' passes from smaller groups to larger groups, wars are lessened. That is, minor wars between smaller nations are lessened, but the potential for greater wars is increased as the nations wielding '''sovereignty''' become larger and larger. Presently, when all the world has been explored and occupied, when nations are few, strong, and powerful, when these great and supposedly '''sovereign nations''' come to touch borders, when only oceans separate them, then will the stage be set for major '''wars''', world-wide conflicts. So-called '''sovereign nations''' cannot rub elbows without generating conflicts and eventuating '''wars'''.

Jesus' teachings at Urmia, as adapted to twentieth-century religious and political conditions continued:

*“The difficulty in the evolution of '''political sovereignty''' from the family to all mankind lies in the inertia-resistance exhibited on all intervening levels. Families have, on occasion, defied their clan, while clans and tribes have often been subversive of the '''sovereignty''' of the territorial state. Each new and forward evolution of '''political sovereignty''' is (and has always been) embarrassed and hampered by the "scaffolding stages" of the previous developments in '''political''' organization. This is true because human loyalties, once mobilized, are hard to change. The same loyalty that makes possible the evolution of the tribe makes difficult the evolution of the super tribe -- the territorial state. The same loyalty (patriotism) that makes possible the evolution of the territorial state vastly complicates the evolutionary development of the '''government''' of all mankind.

*"Political sovereignty is created out of the surrender of self-determinism, first by the individual within the family and then by the families and clans in relation to the tribe and larger groupings. This progressive transfer of self-determination from the smaller to ever-larger political organizations has generally proceeded unabated in the East since the establishment of the Ming and the Mogul dynasties. In the West it obtained for more than a thousand years right on down to the end of the World War, when an unfortunate retrograde movement temporarily reversed this normal trend by re-establishing the submerged political sovereignty of numerous small groups in Europe.  

*"Political sovereignty is created out of the surrender of self-determinism, first by the individual within the family and then by the families and clans in relation to the tribe and larger groupings. This progressive transfer of self-determination from the smaller to ever-larger political organizations has generally proceeded unabated in the East since the establishment of the Ming and the Mogul dynasties. In the West it obtained for more than a thousand years right on down to the end of the World War, when an unfortunate retrograde movement temporarily reversed this normal trend by re-establishing the submerged political sovereignty of numerous small groups in Europe.