The Romanes Lecture 1913 The Imperial Peace An Ideal In European History Delivered In The Sheldonian Theatre May 8 1913

Excerpt from The Romanes Lecture, 1913: The Imperial Peace; An Ideal in European History; Delivered in the Sheldonian Theatre, May 8, 1913 Such is the truth as declared by a great thinker, who lived in the midst 'of a turbulent world, split up into many small rival states, all as a rule either on the verge of war or actually engaged in war with one another. The international life of Europe, that small part of Europe which came within the circle of a common intercourse moved amid the jealousies, the ambitions, the mutual cheating, and the frequent wars of these petty princes and kinglets. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.