... in single-minded devotion for a millennial peace. The new era will have to be of a spiritual, ethical type. Coarser forms of materialism, whether ...
... upheaval. But what sort of New Heaven and New Earth is it likely to usher in. This is a question which it is hardly too early to discuss, for it makes ...
... ambitious personality naturally makes Europe suspicious and watchful, and leads to the formation of leagues and confederations against him. The only ...
... in Africa, led to collisions with both France and Great Britain. The building of the fleet, the Kiel Canal, and other details of maritime policy ...
... suppose that these conclusions are only true so far as they apply to the Teutonic race, and that the same phenomena observed elsewhere are comparatively ...
... aims than these for diplomacy-one aim in particular, which is the preservation of peace. A diplomat is supposed to have failed if the result of his ...
... pursue her own commercial career and, thanks to the English Channel, let the whole of the rest of the world go hang. Such a position could not possibly ...
... Hence Europe, as divided into armed camps, represents one of the old-fashioned ideas that we want to abolish. We wish to put in its stead something ...
... and so vaguely desired was in the hands of sovereigns who were more anxious about their own interests than perhaps was consistent with the common weal. EQUILIBRIUM. At ...
... reactionary tactics. Perhaps also, deeply embedded in the Russian nature we generally find a certain unpracticalness and a tendency to mystical dreams, ...
... borne its burdens, but at its end found themselves hampered as before in the free development of a democracy. Meanwhile, Europe at large presented ...
... present situation he pointed out that for us three definite objects are involved. The first, assented to by every publicist of the day, apart from those ...
... system can be created amongst nations more or less at the same level of civilisation, inspired by much the same ideals, acknowledging the same end of ...
... those inspiring ideals which form the life-blood of institutions. How many states, for instance, recognise or put into practice a really representative ...
... to find in that new Europe real possibilities of advance in all the higher kinds of civilisation. Not only are the various states to contain sane and ...
... proof of that benevolent idealism which belongs to the Russian nature, and of which the Tsar himself has given many signs. Of the three nations who control ...
... belong to private individuals, or private companies. But they are taken, subject to the decision of Prize Courts, as part of the spoils of a successful ...
... the geographical conditions. Every one who studies a map can see for himself what is required by a country anxious to protect its shores or its boundaries. ...
... the conception, especially the conflict between a collective European constraint and an eager and energetic patriotism. We must not, however, be ...
... humanity has ever been called upon to face, and, however difficult, it is also the most splendid. PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY RICHARD CLAY & SONS, ...