60 HEREDITY. 



and, lastly, free trade, and I, in spite of Washing- 

 ton's remarks about the danger of entangling alli- 

 ances, dare predict that the time will ultimately come 

 when the English-speaking league will defend any 

 one part of itself by the force of all its parts. What 

 good would this accomplish? It would make the 

 nearly complete disbanding of standing armies safe 

 in all English-speaking nations. It would reduce the 

 size of armies on the Continent of Europe, although 

 Germany and France might not belong to such an alli- 

 ance. One part of the force of Germany is kept up 

 because of the power of Great Britain. Not only is 

 France her neighbor, but England is also ; and Ger- 

 many, although not given to making war, is given to 

 such preparations for war as to make peace advisable 

 to all her neighbors. The portion of the alliance 

 openest to attack from the land would be in India. 

 The league could be attacked from Russia better 

 than from any other quarter. But/om three hundred 

 and twenty-five millions of people, let them say that 

 they will have peace with each other, and, all history 

 for it, they will ultimately have peace with the world. 

 [Applause.] 



Your Charles Sumner stood here years ago, and 

 made a speech for peace ; but it was his stern for- 

 tune to pass through life a sentinel on the edge of 

 the most terrific civil conflict the world ever saw, 

 except one, the Thirty Years' War. He had far 

 forecast, and regarded our battles as only a police 

 movement for the execution of the laws. He did 

 not admit that his peace principles were fundamen- 



