"the glory and honor of the nations"

"There is some proper operation of the human whole [(universitatis)], to which the whole [(universitas)] of men in all their multitude is ordered; and neither one man,  nor one household, nor one neighborhood, nor one city, nor one particular kingdom is able to achieve this operation alone. . . .  And because this potency cannot be fully actualized at once by one man—nor by any of the particular communities distinguished above—it is necessary that there be a multitude in the human race, through which this whole [(tota)] potency might indeed be actualized; just as it is necessary that there be a multitude of generable things, so that the whole potency of prime matter might always be under act:  otherwise there would be separate potency, which is impossible."

     Dante, Monarchia 1.3.4, 8, as trans. Patrick M. Garner, "Thomas and Dante on the duo ultima hominis," The Thomist 75, no. 3 (July 2011):  421-422 (415-459).  Latin there and on p. 357-358 of the 1921 Società Dantesca Italiana critical edition of the Opere ed. Casella that I own.