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Página 6 - THE IDEA OF A LEAGUE OF NATIONS. II' MANY people have said to themselves, like Jeannette in the touching old ballad, — If I were King of France, or, still better. Pope of Rome. I'd have no fighting men abroad, no weeping maids at home; All the world should be at peace, or, if kings must show their might, Then let those who make the quarrels be the only men to fight. But even Jeannette evidently realized that the idea of making the fate of a tribe or a nation depend upon the fortunes of one or two...
Página 6 - HE speaks not well who doth bis time deplore, Naming it new and little and obscure, Ignoble and unfit for lofty deeds. All times were modern in the time of them, And this no more than others. Do thy part Here in the living day, as did the great Who made old days immortal ! So shall men, Gazing long back to this far-looming hour, Say: " Then the time when men were truly men...
Página 6 - Defying leagued fraud with single truth, Not fearing loss and daring to be pure. When error through the land raged like a pest, They calmed the madness caught from mind to mind By wisdom drawn from eld, and counsel sane ; And, as the martyrs of the ancient world Gave Death for man, so nobly gave they life : Those the great days, and that the heroic age.
Página 6 - Then the time when men were truly men : Though wars grew less, their spirits met the test Of new conditions; conquering civic wrong; Saving the state anew by virtuous lives; Guarding the country's honor as their own, And their own as their country's and their sons': Defying leagued fraud with single truth; Not fearing loss; and daring to be pure.
Página 58 - The reef is strong and cruel, Upon its jagged wall One wave, a score, a hundred Broken and beaten fall; Yet in defeat they conquer, The sea comes flooding in, Wave upon wave is routed, But the tide is sure to win.
Página 1 - Philanthropists may think it possible that the disarmament or subjection of the enemy can be effected by some artificial means, without causing too many wounds, and that this is the true aim of all military science. Pretty as that looks, we must refute the error, for, in such dangerous matters as war, errors arising from good-nature are the worst of all. As the employment of physical force to its fullest extent in no wise excludes the cooperation of intelligence, it follows that he who makes use...

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