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of the Crimean war and of the Civil War in North America healed; how undisturbed the war of 1812 with England left the development of the United States towards the West. In all these cases, only a small part of the whole could suffer directly from the depredations of war.

FRIEDRICH RATZEL. UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG.