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How little any thought in those happy days from what quarter the storm of invasion would come, or how the whole order of the civilized world would be once more sunk under waves of barbarism! We might now indeed despair, only that as from each such wave in ages past a better world has risen than that which went before, from the depth of our trouble now may rise the best of all-the 104new earth to which the new Heaven shall come down.
Page 26.
A very interesting paper in a magazine of last century by Professor Seeley was the first prophecy of this European Court. See Macmillan’s Magazine, March, 1871.
Page 37.
The women.—Of course I do not here allude to the wives of the Anarchists, of whom some accompanied their husbands.
Page 48.
Troops.—This must not be understood as if national armies were then existing. The United States of Europe and America maintained a large military force, which was sent hither and thither, where needed, as representing the Power which preserved the order of the civilized world 105and controlled the still savage or unruly.
Page 63.
Burmah had before this time ceased to be governed by England, having insisted on “Home Rule.”
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The now reduced number of the Dacoits was felt to be no longer a cause of danger if the rest of the society were ordered and strong; for it will hereafter be shown that even a free association for the ordering of a state must be able to deal in some way with the disorderly.
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