Speech on Patriotism (Document 3), item 25

• November 18, 2017 04:06:17 Thomas A. Lingner

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  Those who saw the near approach

  of an international court,

  due to the rapid progress of peace

  sentiment since the First

  Hague Conference were too

  optimistic. It was too

  much for us to expect that

  in fifteen years, from 1899

  to 1914, the whole military

  fabric of the nations of the

  world should be destroyed,
  

  a fabric which has been in 

  a process of weaving from 

  the beginning of recorded

  time. But this is our great

  disappointment that we had

  built such high hopes only to

  have them overthrown. But let

  us abate not one whit our efforts

  to teach the horrors, the injustice,

  the wrong of war. In this way

• July 5, 2017 17:40:27 Annick Rodriguez

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  Those who saw the near approach

  of an international court

  due to the rapid progress of peace

  sentiment since the First

  Hague Conference were too

  optimistic. It was too

  much for us to expect that

  in sixteen  fifteen years from 1899

  to 1914, the whole military

  fabric of the nations of the

  world should be destroyed 

  a fabric which has been in 

  a process of weaving from 

  the beginning of recorded

  time. But this is our great

  disappointment that we had

  built such high hopes only to

  have them overthrown. But let

  us abate not one whit our efforts

  to teach the horrors the injustice

  the wrong of war. In this way

  
  

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