A. C. RUSSELL SC PEACE. BOSTON, NOVEMBER, 1896. INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION Is it not possible to bring the human reason to bear upon this system of folly and mutual ruin? Obviously the best remedy for the evil would be the permanent substitution of some other method than that of "violence and sword law" (to use Milton's phrase), in the decision of international differences. And why should not statesmen, jurists and philanthropists bend their energies to the discovery and adoption of such means? The history of the past abounds with instances to show that not only is that possible, but that it is the natural law of civilization. Through all the conflict and confusion of the past, there may be traced a powerful and prevailing tendency, on the part of mankind, to unite and mass themselves in larger social aggregates under protection of a common policy, based on submission to the authority of a common law. There is not a country in Europe at this moment, which did not at one time consist of a number of races often utterly dissimilar in their origin, religion and government, and who lived in a condition of more constant and deadly feud with each other than exists now between the most hostile The Advocate of peace American Peace Society g elements have same jurisdiction. RY RICHARD. |