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to designate a worker for international peace, suggest a plan as 

 practical for promoting the advent of international peace as that put 

 forward by the obscure and all but forgotten Parisian scholar. 



The world is apt to give fame to the military destroyer or the 

 government official and not to the scholar or the scientific discoverer. 

 In these latter days, when some note is taken of the men who have 

 sought to evolve a human institution that should at least lessen the 

 frequency of wars, with the ultimate aim perhaps of abolishing them 

 altogether, credit is usually given to those who hold government 

 positions, while the share of the scholar is as apt to be forgotten as 

 the work of the skilled workman who turns the precious, uncut stone 

 into the brilliant gem. This has happened, for instance, in the case 

 of the Alabama Arbitration. And among the savants and original 

 thinkers who have not received their just due in advancing the 

 peace of the world is £meric Cruce, who is one of the forebearers 

 of The Hague International Tribunal of Arbitration. 



