Glimpses of the Ages: Or the Superior and Inferior, Races, So Discussed Called, Discussed in the Light of Science (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Take that of the greater amity among the nations. What fact does it conceal? This, viz. A rapid and ceaseless increase of armaments. Of the fiction of speech in the advocacy of peace, speech, written as well as oral, that falls in conferences, congresses, and senate halls that is embodied in treaties, and that established the Hague tribunal, the fact is, the recent hispano-american, and present russo-japanese wars - the latter one of the bloodiest conflicts that ever stained the pages of history; it is the punitive expeditions by which England spreads periodically, among the tribes of India and Africa, the terrors of destruction and death; it is the pursuit wherein Germany, consonant with the well-recognised pastime of European colonisation, is at the present time decimating one of her African colonies. It is signalised in the reports concerning French Congo and Madagascar, and in those which represent the government of the Congo by the Belgians, as the sum of horrors, past and present, of European colonisa tion. Again, it is evidenced in the ceaseless buzz, suggest ing the probability of war, and urging the preparation for war, with which, concurrently with the hum of peace, all literature is vocal. These, I repeat, are the facts whereof the widespread desire for peace among the leading nations is the fiction.

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