Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PROBLEMS OF THE PEACE CHAPTER I THE BRITISH STANDPOINT ' It is the end which determines the means."—Jeremy Bentham. " The interests of Great Britain neither require to be asserted with chicane nor with dexterity—a steady and temperate application of honest principles is her best source of authority."—Memorandum of the British plenipotentiaries at Langres, headquarters of the Allies, February 2, 1814. "We have heard much of late—a great deal too much, I think—of the prestige of England. We used to hear of the character, of the reputation, of the honour of England. I trust that the character, the reputation, and the honour of this country are dear to us all, but if the prestige of England is to be separate from these qualities . . . then I for one have no wish to maintain it."—Lord John Russell, February, 1837. "I wish to make war in order to obtain peace."—Lord Aberdeen, in the House of Lords, June, 1854. " The true patriot is he who seeks the highest welfare of his country and who holds that the real welfare of his country is inseparable from right dealing. He will be jealous for the outward glory, dignity, and interest of the nation, but only so far as they are consistent with justice and honour."— E. A. Freeman. " We are fighting for our national existence, for everything which nations have always held most dear. But we are fighting for something imore. We are fighting for the moral forces of humanity. We are fighting for the respect for public law and for the right of public justice which are the foundations of civilization. We are fighting for right against might."— Mr. Bonar Law, London Guildhall, September 4, 1914. SOME words of a very wise and far-seeing British statesman, uttered just sixty years ago, deserve to be written in letters of gold over...