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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II WHAT IS PEACE ? NOT for the first time have the thoughts and the hopes of men been turned in our own day towards the ideal of. universal or perpetual peace, and towards the possibility of the elimination of wars from among the troubles that beset mankind. For many generations thinkers have devised schemes intended to compass this object; and statesmen have made occasional hesitating attempts to give reality to such portions of them as seemed practicable. A masterly survey of these suggestions and experiments was made so long ago as 1874 in an academical address by the present Master of Peterhouse,t and less comprehensive historical sketch of the same kind was published in 1882 by the German jurist Franz von Holtzendorff.J More recently the same ground has been covered, with an eye to what has been accomplished in practice, rather than to theoretical possibilities, by some of the Junes, rQH- t 'The Peace of Europe,' by A. W. Ward (Essays and Addresses by Professors and Lecturers at the Owens College, London, 1874). J Die Idee des euiigen Volkerfriedens, von Frank von Holtzen- dorff. Berlin, 1882. contributors to the last volume of the Cambridge History, more particularly by Sir Frederick Pollock. Of late years a change has come over the spirit in which the subject is approached. For, whereas the men of the generation to which belong the three writers just named have usually thought of peace as a pattern set up in the intellectual world, as a condition of that ' Kingdom of Heaven' which represents the final goal of human perfection, never attainable yet ever to be approached, the new thought of the present day seems to be that this ideal may even now be reached, if only the right way be followed. The large currents of public sentiment and public opinion a...
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