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tally oomproxnised by am thing he <liil in Biipport of 

 ihr Union during our * - i x i 1 oonfliot. It was the 

 dream of many cultivated men in Boston and Cam- 

 bridge twenty five years ago, thai we bad oorae to 

 -tii .1.1 in wliuli w.ii ■ ; were to I"' unpopular with oul- 

 ture throughout the world, li is the dream of manj 

 men of oulture pet, thai suoh an era is ahead of us. 

 Oui great commissions for the disoussion of inter- 

 national Law, and for the arrangemenl of oomraon 

 lilies in oommeroe, are full of hope to-day, although 

 most of their members are lawyers and dry men of 

 the world, that Belf-interes1 will ultimately prevent 

 u.ir between people of the English-speaking class. 

 1 1 H altogether too early for us to look upon our 

 Peaoe Sooietiea as timely organizations? Arc they 

 nut. ;i promise to winch at this season we maj well 

 h ten i i" a bugle oalling us from afar, and ha^ 

 [ng in ii more hope than was in the bugles heard at 

 Luoknow? "England and America," wrote Carlyle 

 t,, Diokens In 1845, "are properly m>t two nations, 

 hut one, inseparable bj anj human power or diplo- 

 ni. k \ ; being already united h\ Heaven's Act oi 

 Parliamenl and nature and praotioal intercourses 

 indivisible brother elements of the same great Sas 

 ONDOM, to whioh in all honorable ways be long life." 

 When Charles Sumner's oration For peaoe was made, 



in. I ;i leu .ii. I.s of OUlture wen' inclined lo think 



• h.ii Tcnn\ on ang omething authoi Ital Ive w hen 

 In- said, — 



" i dipt Into tha tutura far u human aya oould iae, 



.s.iw tha vision oi tha w « • 1 1 I and .ill ii"' wonder that would l><< 



