for the women of America, now in the fulness of time and the urgency of need, to do the great work which it is in their power to do for the peace and order of the world.

BOSTON, September 29, 1912.

BERTHA VON SUTTNER.

CHAPTER

CONTENTS

I. HISTORY OF THE PEACE MOVEMENT-

A BRIEF OUTLINE.

II.-NATIONAL DANGERS AND NATIONAL

DEFENCE

III.-INTERDEPENDENCE

PAGE

I

23

48

XII.-PATRIOTIC SONGS, SYMBOLS, AND So-

162

XV.-WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, HAS BEEN,

AND WILL BE ACHIEVED

APPENDIX

INDEX

225

232

ILLUSTRATIONS

"THOSE WHO MAKE WAR." "NOT US, TAKE Frontispiece

99

THEM

STATUE OF HUGO GROTIUS, IN THE SQUARE IN
FRONT OF THE NEW CHURCH AT DELFT

ELIHU BURRITT

RICHARD COBDEN

RUSSIANS AND JAPANESE SIGNING THE TREATY
OF PEACE AT PORTSMOUTH, N. H., IN 1905

MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE
OF AGRICULTURE

PATIO OF THE NEW BUILDING OF THE INTER

NATIONAL BUREAU OF THE AMERICAN
REPUBLICS, AT WASHINGTON .

PAGE

4

12

20

32

48

CHARLES SUMNER

THE CHRIST OF THE ANDES .

NORMAN ANGELL

60

84

98

140

A SOLDIER IN THE TRENCH AT PORT ARTHUR 160

THE FISHERIES COMMISSION AT THE HAGUE 192