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et de la Paix, section Belge), under the
leadership of M. E. de Laveleye.
The English parent society has, in the
course of three-quarters of a century, employed
every means that can serve to advance a public
cause. By lectures and public meetings; by
the distribution of literature and a diligent use
of the press; by appeals to the peoples;
petitions to the Governments; resolutions in
parliament; by adapting themselves to Sunday
and other schools, by influencing the religious
community, the clergy and teachers; by
combinations and interviews with peace friends in
all lands—by all practicable means it has
sought to work towards its goal.
First and foremost, it has advocated
arbitration as a substitute for war, laboured for the final
establishment of an International Law, and a
Tribunal for the nations, and for a gradual
reduction of standing armies; at the same time
it has never ceased to raise its voice against the
wars in which England and other nations have
engaged. At a Universal International Peace
Congress, held in London under the auspices of
the society in 1843, it was resolved to send an
address “to the Governments of the civilized
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