During the last war when there was a market for everything that could be produced, the production capacity of Canada and the United States, which were outside the battle area, increased one hundred percent. John Boyd Orr More Quotes by John Boyd Orr More Quotes From John Boyd Orr After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed. John Boyd Orr agriculture war world In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods. John Boyd Orr lasts fifty years The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war. John Boyd Orr intermittent war civilization If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law. John Boyd Orr views civilization thinking However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with agreed international law and means of enforcing the law, is inevitable. John Boyd Orr difficult government law world In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without. John Boyd Orr without revolution powerful years Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure. John Boyd Orr rise political knowledge fall
