[259] Most of them much less. In this, however, as in so many other respects, the present war, declared by Germany against Russia, August 1, 1914 (five days before Austria could be persuaded to act likewise), against France the 3d, against Belgium the 4th, which was tantamount to declaring it on England too, is an exception.
[260] In connection with Washington's views, those of Franklin concerning amicable relations between great countries may appropriately be quoted. He wrote from Passy, on October 16, 1783, to his friend David Hartley, one of the British plenipotentiaries for the peace: "What would you think of a proposition, if I sh'd make it of a family compact between England, France, and America? America would be as happy as the Sabine girls if she could be the means of uniting in perpetual peace her father and her husband. What repeated follies are those repeated wars! You do not want to conquer and govern one another. Why, then, should you continually be employed in injuring and destroying one another? How many excellent things might have been done to promote the internal welfare of each country; what bridges, roads, canals, and other public works and institutions tending to the common felicity, might have been made and established with the money and men foolishly spent during the last seven centuries by our mad wars in doing one another mischief!" Works, ed. Smythe, IX, 107.
[261] "Notwithstanding the support given to the Russian proposition by France, one of the most martial of the nations, and by various other governments, the objections voiced by the German delegates were too serious to be overcome." John W. Foster, Arbitration and The Hague Court, Boston, 1904, p. 32.
[262] Text, e.g., in the Temps, May 12, 1913.
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
The spellings "Bastile" and "Bastille", "beforementioned" and "before-mentioned", "Fraunces'" and "Fraunces's", "ibid." and "Ibid.", "Potowmac" and "Potomac" appear in this text.
The following alterations have been made to the text:
p. 17: "it is their interest" amended to "it is in their interest".
p. 127: double quotation marks added before "Taxation".
p. 142: double quotation marks added before and after "I was".
p. 201: period replaced by comma after "what any man durst".
p. 235: "dominant trait in in" amended to "dominant trait in".
p. 240: "philanthrophy" amended to "philanthropy".
p. 245: "a devil of fool" amended to "a devil of a fool".
p. 250: "postcript" amended to "postscript"; also comma deleted after "Ternant"
p. 314: "W. Washington" amended to "G. Washington".
On p. 253 "represent for you" should perhaps be "represent you" but has been left unchanged.
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