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Page 35 - To-day the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition.
Page 81 - We see dimly in the Present what is small and what is great, Slow of faith how weak an arm may turn the iron helm of fate, But the soul is still oracular ; amid the market's din, List the ominous stern whisper from the Delphic cave within — "They enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin.
Page 6 - The Contracting Powers agree to abstain from the use of projectiles the object of which is the diffusion of asphyxiating or deleterious gases.
Page 110 - ... full-blossomed on the thorny stem of time. Through the walls of hut and palace shoots the instantaneous throe, when the travail of the ages wrings earth's systems to and fro; at the birth of each new era, with a recognizing start, nation wildly looks at nation, standing with mute lips apart, and glad truth's yet mightier man-child leaps beneath the future's heart.
Page 15 - In case of serious disagreement or dispute, before an appeal to arms, the contracting powers agree to have recourse, as far as circumstances allow, to the good offices or mediation of one or more friendly powers.
Page 81 - New occasions teach new duties : Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea. Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.
Page 55 - For offences against this law are principally incident to whole states or nations, in which case recourse can only be had to war ; which is an appeal to the God of hosts, to punish such infractions of public faith as are committed by one independent people against another : neither state having any superior jurisdiction to resort to upon earth for justice.
Page 119 - Power. His preface, then, would read, in part, as follows: "Historians generally have been unfamiliar with the conditions of peace, having as to it neither special interest nor special knowledge; and the profound determining influence of peace power upon great issues has consequently been overlooked. The definite object proposed in this work is an examination of the general history of Europe and America with particular reference to the effect of peace power upon the course of that history.
Page 139 - But if he hear thee not, take with thee one or two more, that at the mouth of two witnesses or three every word may be established.
Page 120 - Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. For every false word or unrighteous deed, for cruelty and oppression, for lust or vanity, the price has to be paid at last ; not always by the chief offenders, but paid by some one.