The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels it to seek, is the achievement of a universal civic society which administers law.
— Immanuel Kant Early Modern

Critique of Pure Reason

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Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose, Fifth Thesis

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1784

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