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cion, and general incompatibility of temper 

 that these peoples have been in a high degree 

 human. But it has also shown that they have 

 exhibited, on a steadily growing scale, that 

 loftiest of human attributes the will to adjust 

 the frictions of social life by reason, the faculty 

 that President Butler has so well designated, in 

 its broadest aspect, as &quot;the international mind.&quot; 

 Our review has shown finally, if it has been ade 

 quate and truthful, that there has persisted in 

 the consciousness of these peoples, often enough 

 obscurely, but none the less certainly, the feel 

 ing that some special fiat of God and nature en 

 joins enduring peace among those whose blood 

 or language or institutions or traditions, or 

 all together, go back historically to the snug 

 little island of Britain. 



