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end of the Seven Years' War down to the French Revolution, we note the marked growth of a distinctly international and pacific spirit. At no era in the world's history can we find so many European statesmen after peace and the good government of which peace is the best allay. That sentiment came to violent end when Napo- leon arose to scourge the world.

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