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but proceeded from the great powers
themselves. Should we then, they say further, be
the first people to take such a step? Would
it not be equivalent to begging peace of our
neighbour, and declaring ourselves incapable
before the whole world? The sensible thing
would be to further develop and strengthen our
army. The resolution was called a political
demonstration of indigence; a disgusting
nihilist plot, and so on. One member of the
Riksdag proposed that it should be consigned
to a committee charged with arranging for
sending beasts abroad. Scoffs came thick as
hail; and when it became known that the mover
in the Second Chamber was its author, the really
guilty one, he was branded as a universal
traitor,—just as the year before, when he raised
a peaceable question about extended liberty of
conscience.
In my defence of the resolution in the
Riksdag, I sought to anticipate all objections
to it which were worthy of notice.[1]
Amongst these I give special attention to the
following five:—
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