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The last mentioned book, "Peace and 

 Disarmament," at once made Bjorklund 

 famous. It was translated into French, 

 German, English, Polish, Dutch, Hun- 

 garian and several other languages, and 

 would no doubt have brought its author 

 a Nobel prize, had it appeared fifteen 

 years later. Bjorklund was now elected 

 an honorary member of the Swedish 

 Peace Society. At the Peace Congress 

 in Bern (1892) his treatise, "The Armed 

 Peace," was distributed in English, Ger- 

 man and French, and the Italian Soci- 

 ety, "Unione Operaia Umberto I," sub- 

 sequently elected him an honorary mem- 

 ber. 



In his later years Bjorklund devoted 

 less time to active work in the universal 

 peace movement. He became more ab- 

 sorbed in scientific research and the 

 problems of philosophy. An important 

 impulse to his later development, he re- 

 ceived from a book, "Significance of Seg- 

 mentation in the Organic World" (Stock- 

 holm, 1890). Here he was brought to 

 serious consideration of the nature of 



