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peace have effects going beyond the two na 

 tions whom it blesses ? They understand one 

 another. The material interests that unite them 

 are greater than ever before, the private friend 

 ships more numerous, the reciprocal knowledge 

 of one another more complete. Are they not 

 naturally fitted to act together whenever their 

 efforts can be jointly put forth on behalf of 

 international justice and peace, confirming by 

 their influence the good which their example 

 has already done ? They have given the finest 

 example ever seen in history of an undefended 

 frontier, along which each people has trusted 

 to the good faith of the other that it would 

 create no naval armaments; and this very 

 absence of armaments has itself helped to pre 

 vent hostile demonstrations. Neither of them 

 has ever questioned the sanctity of treaties, 

 or denied that states are bound by the moral 

 law. 



Be that as it may, it is, to those who are sad 

 dened by the calamities which the year 1914 

 has brought upon Europe, a consoling thought 

 that the century of peace which has raised the 

 English-speaking peoples from forty millions 

 to one hundred and sixty millions has created 

 among those peoples a sense of kindliness and 



