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Lorraine, of the Balkan States, of the
Bosphorus and Dardanelles, demand the attention
of all who seek to hasten “the coming peace.”
It would be easy to overrate the direct value
of these facts; but their value as signs of the
direction in which public opinion is rapidly
moving can hardly be overrated. They are
symptoms of a growing recognition of the
obligations of man to man, and of people to
people, of our common human interests and of
our universal interdependence.
I should not lay great stress on the deterrent
power of the prospect of the ruinous losses and
desolations likely to follow from future wars.
A great principle might well demand from a
nation great sacrifices; and the very strength
of a policy of Peace lies in the postponement of
material interests to human duties. But none
the less the wide expansion of commercial
and social intercourse, joint enterprises, even
rivalries not always ungenerous, exercise a
salutary influence upon the feeling of nation
for nation, and make what were once regarded
as natural animosities no longer possible.
Under the action of these forces we are
learning more and more to endeavour to regard
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