III. 



NECESSARY BELIEFS INHERENT IN THE 

 PLAN OF THE SOUL. 



PKELUDE ON CUKBENT EVENTS. 



IN the possible, I do not say in the probable, 

 future, there lies, at a distance of not more than 

 three centuries, an alliance, not a union, of Great 

 Britain, the United States, Australia, India, belting 

 the globe, and possessed of power to strike a uni- 

 versal peace through half the continents and all the 

 seas. The disbanding of large standing armies 

 among English-speaking peoples would be one 

 majestic end attainable by this majestic means. 

 Great Britain alone now virtually rules the waves. 

 Except in India, an alliance of the English-speaking 

 peoples of the world could be attacked only from 

 the sea. But the 'fleets of an American- Anglican 

 commercial league might easily govern the oceans. 

 Such an alliance was deliberately proposed not long 

 ago in a speech before the Union League Club of 

 New York, by Mr. Forster, a member of Parlia- 

 ment, and Mr. Gladstone's prospective successor as 



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