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the representatives of all the great religions united in repudi- ating war and demanding arbitration. Neither have I mentioned the Centennial of the Institute of France which M. Jules Simon has publicly called in the Sorbonne itself, the real Peace Con- gress, and which M. Sully Prudhomme in his poem recited at the Theatre Francais by Monnet Sully, saluted in the name of Peace.

Nor have I mentioned the Brussels meeting of the Interna- tional Association for the Codification and Reform of Interna- tional Law; nor, indeed, of an assembly of quite a different character, that which gathered at the Kiel Canal. A ceremony ostensibly military and well calculated to call forth a groan of astonishment, if one did not consider that the frightful power of the marine monsters assembled there, really tends to the main- tenance of peace, and that it is a strange spectacle indeed to see hundreds of ships of war, brought together like tamed lions, and ready, to use the words of Admiral Reveillere, to disavow war and lower their flags in unison at the feet of industry and commerce.

In spite of all the different interests which seek to put obstacles in its way, the movement is irresistible. It betrays itself everywhere, even if it does not proclaim itself openly. The Journal des Dtbats, referring to the meetings of the Anglo- French Association, invoked the aid of women, as Jules Simon had done long ago, and remarked their influence in the peace societies. The Times, on occasion of an Academy Reception, imputes to Napoleon, as his greatest crime, that of having turned the intellects of the age from the path upon which they had entered, and of having thus retarded by a century at least, that thing most desirable above all others, peace by arbitration. Newspapers of the most different shades of political opinion, LElair. ic I'igaro, le Matin, contain articles on this subject, dif- ferent in aim sometimes and under different signatures, but all showing the great inu-n-st which is being taken in international arbitration and in those who are laboring to promote it. The international character of the undertaking becomes more evi- dent from day to day in i-x.unining the contents of numerous

important periodicals. Besides those published in France, the