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To love one's country above all others is not to despise all others.

The Brotherhood of Man, the Federation of Nations, the Peace of the World.

Between nation and nation, as between man and man, lives the one law

of right.

Inscriptions for the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo

R. W. GILDER

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THE NEW YORK IC LIBRARY

PEACE AND INTERNATIONAL GOOD

WILL

VISION OF THE FUTURE

Extract from Locksley Hall

ALFRED TENNYSON

FOR I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be;

Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic

sails,

Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly

bales;

Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'd a ghastly dew

From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue;

Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm,

With the standards of the peoples plunging thro' the thunder-storm;

Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battleflags were furl'd;

In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.

There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful

realm in awe,

And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal

law.

VIOLENT DEEDS

Extract from the Odyssey

HOMER

THE great gods are never pleased
With violent deeds; they honor equity
And justice. Even those who land as foes
And spoilers upon foreign shores, and bear
Away much plunder by the will of Jove,
Returning homeward with their laden barks,
Feel, brooding heavily upon their minds,
The fear of vengeance.

PROPHECY OF PEACE

Extract from The Messiah

ALEXANDER POPE

FROM Jesse's root behold a branch arise,
Whose sacred flower with fragrance fills the skies;
Th' ethereal spirit o'er its leaves shall move,
And on its top descends the mystic dove.
Ye Heav'ns! from high the dewy nectar pour,
And in soft silence shed the kindly shower!

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