Role of Religion in Politics. . .(14) When we look at history, we notice the continuous march of mankind from small groupings and structures to higher and higher integrations and organizations. Families, clans, and tribes of the prehistoric times gave place to the nation-states and empires of the later day. And vaster aggregations are in the offing today. The history of the world, the history of humanity, is an arresting story of greater and greater integrations. The UN is undoubtedly more broad-based than the League of Nations. It is the best fruit of world political thought. It is the finest and noblest machinery that humanity has yet produced for its own collective welfare. It has its limitations; but these limitations proceed from immaturity of contemporary political wisdom. Leaving the affairs of national concern to be decided by the national states, the UN functions as the worlds platform to discuss interstate affairs, to discuss subjects which are neither local nor national but international, and which affect the welfare of all the nations of the world. We should not think that the United Nations is a perfect organization. But out of the very failures of the UN something better will emerge. Source: Eternal Values for a Changing Society, Pub. Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Vol. 4, pp. 111-112 Role of Religion in Politics (To be continued. . .)
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