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 5G ORIGIN OF THE WAR OF 1853 chap. Is it true that for this cause great armies were ' gathering, and that for the sake of the key and the silver star the peace of the nations was brought into danger? Had the world grown young once more? The strife of the Churches was no fable, but after all, though near and distinct, it was only the lesser truth. A crowd of monks with base fore- heads stood quarrelling for a key at the sunny gates of a church in Palestine, but beyond and above, towering high in the misty North, men saw the ambition of the Czars.