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 rights of space in which to rotate and freedom from collision with other suns or planets. The solar system is organized as a sphere of the related spheres of the universe.

We cannot have a world republic until we have a universal standard form of government, and when a world republic comes it will be the republic of the united republics of the world.

As soon as the world grasps the full meaning of the republic as a form of government its universal adoption will be as natural as the universal adoption of the other standards referred to in Chapter IV.

The institution of monogamous marriage was first evolved in some country, and when the world recognized that it was better than either polygamy or promiscuity, it met with almost universal adoption. The clock was first evolved in some country, and when the world recognized it as the best method of telling and recording time, it met with universal adoption. And likewise with the golden rule, the ten digits, the standards of weights and measures, etc.

It is to our everlasting glory that the republic was evolved in this country, and it is our supreme privilege and sacred duty to maintain it unimpaired and to spread the gospel of its sterling worth to all other nations of the world.