21st October.
Wes two such rivals as England and France can mutually agree to bury the hatchet so far as to make a treaty of arbitration the one with the other, it is too early to despair entirely of human nature. It is of course understood that the treaty so far negotiated is but a very partial instrument, and that above it and beyond it there are and will remain matters of difference which the treaty will not touch. Yet to humanity at large the new departure is full of the larger hope. And it is all the more noteworthy that it should have been brought about between two States which have fought one another more than any other civilised peoples.
"Three and twenty times within the past 600 years have Frenchman and
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