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110 no HARVARD LAW REVIEW. ruptures. Its great achievement has been the training of public opinion. If the peace societies can formulate some scheme, not too ambitious, for an international tribunal, public opinion will be far stronger in its support than it would have been before arbitration was fairly tried. Arbitration has paved the way, perhaps, through other temporary and makeshift institutions, but none the less surely, for some permanent and universal solution of international disputes without resort to war. It has given a strength to the friends of peace, which if they have the courage and wisdom to avail themselves of it can accomplish far more toward relegating war to the background of barbaric customs than any quantity of pledges of national faith. The history of the past eighty years must convince every opponent of war that now is not the time to rest content with what has been accom- plished, that nations have adopted his old rules of conduct, that he must keep to the front and formulate that new tribunal which shall bring " on earth peace, good-will toward men." H. A. Davis.