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was almost continually involved in war. We
reckon two hundred and sixty years of war to
the Kalmar Union, and the proneness to invade
and defend the countries on the other side the
Baltic.
The old causes of war are being removed.
Certainly new ones arise as a result of selfish
patriotism, breaking out in new acts of violence.
But these outbreaks of barbarism become
continually more rare. Unhappily, they are so
much the more horrible when they do occur,
but yet much more transitory. This is
applicable to all the great wars in the last half of the
present century. No thirty years’ war is known
now.
In consequence of the shorter flow of blood
the wounds get time to heal, and the divided
interests are allowed to grow together again.
The levers of civilization are again in motion;
commerce spreads over land and sea by steam,
electricity, and other motive powers. The
victories of Alexander and Napoleon are cast
into the shade by the triumphal procession of
the tiny postage stamp around the world.
Trade and industry, art and science, efforts in
the direction of universal morality and
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