94 The Destiny of Man. 



been employed in warfare has been re- 

 markably less than in any previous age. 

 In our own history, of the two really great 

 wars which have permeated our whole 

 social existence, the Revolutionary War 

 and the War of Secession, the first was 

 fought in behalf of the pacific principle 

 of equal representation ; the second was 

 fought in behalf of the pacific principle 

 of federalism. In each case, the victory 

 helped to hasten the day when warfare 

 shall become unnecessary. In the few 

 great wars of Europe since the overthrow 

 of Napoleon, we may see the same prin- 

 ciple at work. In almost every case the 

 result has been to strengthen the pacific 

 tendencies of modern society Whereas 

 warfare was once dominant ove*. the face of 

 the earth, and came home in all its horrid 

 details to everybody's door, and threatened 

 the very existence of industrial civiliza- 

 tion ; it has now become narrowly confined 

 in time and space, it no longer comes 

 home to everybody's door, and, in so far 



