Nicholas Hagger - The Secret American Destiny: The Hidden Order of The Universe and The Seven Disciplines of World Culture

Nicholas Hagger is a poet, man of letters, cultural historian and philosopher. He has lectured in English at the University of Baghdad in Iraq and the University of Libya, and was a Professor of English Literature at Tokyo University and Keio University in Japan. He has studied Islamic and Oriental philosophy, and led a group of Universalist philosophers. Following his recent work in setting up a World State, which his two epic poems heralded, he was awarded the Gusi Peace Prize 2016 for Literature.

He is the author of more than 40 books. These include a substantial literary output of over 2,000 poems (including over 300 classical odes), two poetic epics, five verse plays and 1,200 short stories; travelogues; and innovatory works in literature, history and philosophy. His catalogued archive of papers and manuscripts is held on permanent deposit as a Special Collection in the Albert Sloman Library at the University of Essex.

By the same author:

The Fire and the Stones

Selected Poems

The Universe and the Light

A White Radiance

A Mystic Way

Awakening to the Light

A Spade Fresh with Mud

The Warlords

Overlord

A Smell of Leaves and Summer

The Tragedy of Prince Tudor

The One and the Many

Wheeling Bats and a Harvest Moon

The Warm Glow of the Monastery Courtyard

The Syndicate

The Secret History of the West

The Light of Civilization

Classical Odes

Overlord (one-volume edition)

Collected Poems 19582005

Collected Verse Plays

Collected Stories

The Secret Founding of America

The Last Tourist in Iran

The Rise and Fall of Civilizations

The New Philosophy of Universalism

The Libyan Revolution

Armageddon

The World Government

The Secret American Dream

A New Philosophy of Literature1

A View of Epping Forest

My Double Life 1: This Dark Wood

My Double Life 2: A Rainbow over the Hills

Selected Stories: Follies and Vices of the Modern Elizabethan Age

Selected Poems: Quest for the One

The Dream of Europa

Life Cycle and Other New Poems

The First Dazzling Chill of Winter

To the incoming American President in November 2016, who has the power to urge the UN General Assembly to establish a democratic, bicameral world government, a partly federal World State with limited supranational authority to enforce peace and disarmament.

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This work is a reflection on the fragmentation and underlying unity of world culture. It draws on all my works, which (as occasional references to their researched findings make clear) can all be seen to have contributed to my present view of world culture, and in particular on The World Government (2010), which begins in philosophy and ends with a blueprint for a World State: the secret American destiny. It harnesses the vision of T S Eliot, whose Notes towards the Definition of Culture saw religion as crucial to world culture, and of Tennyson, who glimpsed a world federation:

For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be;

Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle-flags were furled

In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.

There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe,

And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law.

Locksley Hall, 1842

My thinking is dialectical as it ponders global culture from opposite sides (thesis and antithesis) and arrives at a new Universalist perspective (synthesis). It is also contemplative as it combines rational thinking with intuitive thinking that perceives unity and the hidden order in the universe. As in all reflective work, my text sometimes refers back (or forward) to a related passage, and in such cases cross-referencing intended to be helpful takes the reader to the correct page.

This is the third book of my American trilogy about Liberty. I am indebted to Michael Mann, who commissioned the previous two books and immediately grasped the connection between uniting world culture and founding a World State. I began this work on 25 April 2015 (the day after a visit to the historian Lord Asa Briggs, author of Secret Days, then 93) and completed it on 21 October 2015, six months later. I am also indebted to my efficient PA Ingrid Kirk who kept up with my blistering pace.

The front cover shows the Statue of Liberty alongside the Chrysler Building in New York, c19281930, with an Art Deco crown of seven terraced arches that suggest the seven disciplines of world culture.

Human society can be saved only by Universalism.

Emery Reves
The Anatomy of Peace, 1945

There is no salvation for civilization, or even the human race, other than the creation of a world government.

Albert Einstein, 1945

History is now choosing the founders of the World Federation. Any person who can be among that number and fails to do so has lost the noblest opportunity of a lifetime.

Carl van Doren

Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in the future.

Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of Great Britain, 1945

The emergency committee of atomic scientists, having explored for two years all means other than world government for making responsible the control of atomic energy [meaning nuclear weapons, really, and by implication, all weapons of mass destruction], has become convinced that no other method than world government can be expected to prove effective, and that the attainment of world government is therefore the most urgent problem now facing mankind.

1948 UN Resolution

There is an increasing awareness of the need for some form of global government.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Our times demand a new definition of leadership global leadership. They demand a new constellation of international cooperation governments, civil society and the private sector, working together for a collective global good.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon,
speech at World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland,
29 January 2009

This book is the third of my American trilogy. It follows The Secret Founding of America