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enlightenment, all branch out and weave around
the nations a boundless web of common
interests, which, though at certain intervals violently
torn asunder by brute force, grows together
again with increased strength and in broader
compass; until one day, under the majesty of
law, it will form an irresistible civilizing
power.
This is what in reality is taking place.
Men do not in general see it; and this, because
they busy themselves so much with warlike
notions, and trouble themselves so little about
events of the character that I have dwelt upon
in the foregoing pages.
The friends of peace ought to stimulate one
another, especially when there is gloom over the
great world, and no one knows whence the
approaching calamity may spring. Once it was
warded off from our land by a wise measure of
one of our kings. I refer to Oscar I., when he
saved us from being embroiled in the chances
of war, by drawing up a declaration of
neutrality in 1854, which was approved by the
united powers, and earned for him the homage
and gratitude of the Swedish Riksdag, in an
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