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THE PROSPECTS.
The events which I have here described will
perhaps one day be regarded as the transition
into a new era. But specially here, in the
Old World, with its many unsettled accounts,
we cannot rely upon bright pictures of the
future. We are convinced of nothing beyond
the range of our own knowledge and
experience.
I have thought so myself, and therefore I
have endeavoured to keep to facts which
no one can deny.
It is a fact that wars continually diminish
in proportion as peoples are brought nearer, to
one another by trade and commerce. The old
warlike condition has ceased. Formerly not a
year passed without war in Europe—in the
Middle Ages hardly a week. After 1815 an
international peace reigned over most of the
European States for forty years. In the
Scandinavian peninsula that peace is continuing still.
Before that time, at least until 1721, Sweden
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