Modern science and modern economic organization has reduced this world to the unity of interdependence: the inference from this condition is, as I think, the supremacy of cosmopolitan need over the national claim.
Laski emphasizes the interconnectedness of the modern world and the need for cosmopolitan considerations over national claims.
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