April 16—As governments and leaders from all over the world prepare, either to confront, or to flinch from what could be humanity’s greatest moment of decision, the International Schiller Institute, armed with the method of scientific discovery of the physical economist Lyndon LaRouche, has used its just-concluded two-day conference, “Without the Development of All Nations, There Can Be No Lasting Peace for the Planet” to successfully place the work of four great thinkers—Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa, Gottfried Leibniz, Friedrich Schiller and LaRouche—at the disposal of those governments, leaders and, indeed, the citizens of a growing, worldwide “republic of the mind.” Representatives of several governments participated in the conference-process, for several hours, and expressed an excited surprise at the quality, level and depth of the questions posed, and the discussion of solutions in which they found themselves engaged. Whether it be war or peace, or prosperity or poverty, the necessity for a new security and development architecture was strongly enough felt to allow for ground-breaking applications of the most profound philosophical concepts to the most “practical” of circumstances.