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 ANDREW CARNEGIE 105 cons in the world, how drab and drear this world of ours would be. Mr. Carnegie is a veteran in the cause of peace ; and he re- gards the subject in all its phases — industrial, social, and in- temationaL No man has realized more fully than he that humanity is fundamentally a unity ; that all classes, as well as nations and races, are indissolubly bound together, for ill or for good. His sympathies are in this sense universal. With another eminent American he can truly say : * * The world is my country, and to do good is my religion. ' ' Addressing the Annual Meeting of the Peace Society in the Guildhall, London, May 10, 1910, he proclaimed his faith and his hopes in the future in the following words : * * If all civil- ized people now regard these former atrocities of war as dis- graceful to humanity, how soon must their successors regard the root of these barbarities, war itself, as unworthy of civil- ized men, and discard them as intolerable t We are marching fast to that day, the reign of law under which civilized peo- ples are bound to live — nations being only aggregates of in- dividuals, why should they be permitted to wage war against other nations, when, if we were all classed as one nation, they would be denied this right of war, and would have to subject themselves to the reign of lawf Without claims to any special personal magnetism or brilli- ancy, Mr. Carnegie is one of those rare men who have achieved all they set out to accomplish. His successes in carrying through his ideals and in popularizing them, as well as in his business enterprises, he owes mainly to the fact that he has always been intensely practical. He saw very clearly all that was within his horizon — an extensive one, truly — but he nev- er sought to fathom what was beyond. He has traveled much, seen mudi, reflected much ; and has made many acquaintances, both at home and abroad. He has counseled with statesmen, and has been consulted by mon- archs. Among his friends may be mentioned the late Mr. Gladstone, whom he regarded as his political leader and loved as a man; John Morley, the distinguished and philosophic