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O proportion the eagernes of contet to its importance eems too hard a talk for human widom. The pride of wit has kept ages buy in the dicuion of ueles quetions, and the pride of power has detroyed armies to gain or to keep unprofitable poeions.

many years have paed ince the cruelties of war were filling the world with terror and with orrow; rage was at lat appeaed, or trength exhauted, and to the haraed nations peace was retored, with its pleaures and its benefits. Of this tate all felt the happines, and all implored the