PERPETUAL PEACE
Mary Campbell Smith translation
“For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain’d a ghastly dew From the nations’ airy navies grappling in the central blue; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples plunging thro’ the thunder-storm; Till the war-drum throbb’d no longer, and the battle-flags were furl’d In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world. There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe, And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law.” Tennyson: Locksley Hall.
PERPETUAL PEACE A PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAY
BY IMMANUEL KANT
1795
TRANSLATED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY M. CAMPBELL SMITH, M.A.
WITH A PREFACE BY PROFESSOR LATTA
LONDON: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD. RUSKIN HOUSE 40 MUSEUM STREET, W.C. NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
First Edition, 1903 Second Impression, February 1915 Third ” February 1917