Oct. 20.
Reference to any comprehensive history, such og the "Hit ians' History of the World," wil show that war haa certainly been one of the main occupations of man. Conflicts by the hundred and battles by the thousand are recorded in such volumes, and it would have seemed as if all sible permutations and combinstions of warfare must have been worked out long before this. Yet it ig not so. The present war in several ways unique. It is unique in the sum total of the combatants engaged. It is unique in its objects.—Amongst civilized states it is unique in its atrocities. But most of all it is unique in its possible effects, and this irrespective of the side to which victory may finally lean. For, if we suppose the allies to win, there will be opened up such an opportunity for securing the peace of the world aa never before was known, and this for the good and sufficient reason that never before has the world as a whole been s0 fully compromised in out way and another as it is now. That this is so will be seen from moment's consideration of 90-
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