ABSTRACT
The press, too, of both countries, with few exceptions, for some time past has, unhappily, been administering to our combative feelings; and by sallies of wit, boastings and threatenings, seeking to fan our old animosities into a flame of destructive war. The arts of peace are fast preparing a highway to the world's happiness; the ingenuity of invention and triumphs of genius are fast breaking down the barriers which separate nations; gothic prejudices are yielding before human sympathies; the productive classes are fast learning the lesson of human reciprocity; and eventually the freedom of nations will be placed on a foundation not to be endangered by official folly, or destroyed by the whim of a despot. Unhappily for the cause of peace and human progress, State and Church are combined in favour of war.
