100. Based on forces from the new world impulse, the development of universal love is strongly increasing in individuals and so the above-mentioned neutralizing, or restriction, has not caused their moral development to cease entirely, but on the contrary, has brought about an undermining of their pursuit of "nationalism" in favour of an awakening interest in "internationalism". As "nationalism" in reality constitutes the "selfishness of the nation" and "internationalism" is the "unselfishness of the nation", the above means that the selfishness of the nation is decreasing, while its unselfishness is growing. But simultaneously with the growth of the nation's unselfishness, there grows also its demand for, and its interest in, a different way of settling the nations' disagreements from the one now existing in the form of war. But just as individuals cannot give up settling differences among themselves by fighting and injury while belonging to a society at a Stone Age level without any system of law and justice, neither, in the same way, can nations relinquish the settling of their differences among themselves by drastic and ruthless measures as long as their mutual relationships, regarding organization and reciprocal understanding, are also still at a Stone Age level. But, as conditions are now such that the inhabitants of each of the various nations have grown forward to a cultural stage far in advance of that of Stone Age man, they are not able to continue tolerating the fact that relationships between nations still have to remain at a Stone Age level. And their higher culture now begins to force them to see also that the nations' means of settling affairs in the form of wars is criminal, in the same way they realised long ago that the same means of settlement between man and man are criminal, and they have therefore accepted the development of the national system of law and justice. Therefore the present direction that evolution is taking, which is the growth of internationalism or universal love, will gradually neutralize those methods of settlement between nations which release war and mutilation, in favour of all those tendencies which, without any bloodshed, and in peaceful and human ways in harmony with the law of existence, can enable all nations and races to enjoy "right" and justice. And as the fundamental basis for this can only be a World Court based on actual world power united with world law, then such a World Court, such a world authority over all people, has to become a realistic fact before lasting peace on Earth can be fundamentally secured.