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INTRODUCTION TO THE
ENGLISH EDITION.
It is natural that the advocates of international
Peace should sometimes grow discouraged and
impatient through what they are tempted to
consider the slow progress of their cause. Sudden
outbursts of popular feeling, selfish plans for
national aggrandisement, unremoved causes of
antipathy between neighbours, lead them to
overlook the general tendency of circumstances
and opinions which, when it is regarded on
a large scale, is sufficient to justify their
loftiest hopes. It is this general tendency of
thought and fact, corresponding to the maturer
growth of peoples, which brings to us the
certain assurance that the Angelic Hymn which
welcomed the Birth of Christ advances, slowly
it may be as men count slowness, but at least
unmistakably, towards fulfilment. There are
pauses and interruptions in the movement; but,
on the whole, no one who patiently regards the
course of human history can doubt that we are
drawing nearer from generation to generation
to a practical sense of that brotherhood and
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