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 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 PROPHECY OF PEACE Extract from The Messiah ALEXANDER POPE FROM Jesse's root behold a branch arise, |