Pax mundi

A CONCISE ACCOUNT OF THE PROGRESS OF THE MOVEMENT FOR PEACE BY MEANS OF ARBITRATION, NEUTRALIZATION, INTERNATIONAL LAW AND DISARMAMENT
K.P. ARNOLDSON
Member of the Second Chamber of the Swedish Riksdag
AUTHORIZED ENGLISH EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE BISHOP OF DURHAM
London SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO. PATERNOSTER SQUARE 1892
Butler & Tanner, The Selwood Printing Works, Frome, and London.
This little work, written by one who has long been known as a consistent and able advocate of the views herein maintained, has been translated by a lady who has already rendered great services to the cause, in the belief that it will be found useful by the increasing number of those who are interested in the movement for the substitution of Law for War in international affairs.
J.F.G.
It is natural that the advocates of international Peace should sometimes grow discouraged and impatient through what they are tempted to consider the slow progress of their cause. Sudden outbursts of popular feeling, selfish plans for national aggrandisement, unremoved causes of antipathy between neighbours, lead them to overlook the general tendency of circumstances and opinions which, when it is regarded on a large scale, is sufficient to justify their loftiest hopes. It is this general tendency of thought and fact, corresponding to the maturer growth of peoples, which brings to us the certain assurance that the Angelic Hymn which welcomed the Birth of Christ advances, slowly it may be as men count slowness, but at least unmistakably, towards fulfilment. There are pauses and interruptions in the movement; but, on the whole, no one who patiently regards the course of human history can doubt that we are drawing nearer from generation to generation to a practical sense of that brotherhood and that solidarity of men—both words are necessary—which find their foundation and their crown in the message of the Gospel.
Under this aspect the Essay of Mr. Arnoldson is of great value, as giving a calm and comprehensive view of the progress of the course of Peace during the last century, and of the influences which are likely to accelerate its progress in the near future.