PAX MUNDI.
A CONCISE ACCOUNT OF THE PROGRESS OF
THE MOVEMENT FOR PEACE
BY MEANS OF ARBITRATION, NEUTRALIZATION,
INTERNATIONAL LAW AND DISARMAMENT
BY
K.P. ARNOLDSON
Member of the Second Chamber of the Swedish Riksdag
AUTHORIZED ENGLISH EDITION
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE BISHOP OF DURHAM
London
SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO.
PATERNOSTER SQUARE
1892
Butler & Tanner,
The Selwood Printing Works,
Frome, and London.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| Introduction | 1 |
| Arbitration | 8 |
| Neutrality | 40 |
| Further Developments | 82 |
| The Prospects | 138 |
| Appendix | 165 |
PREFATORY NOTE.
This little work, written by one who has long been known as aconsistent and able advocate of the views herein maintained, has beentranslated by a lady who has already rendered great services to thecause, in the belief that it will be found useful by the increasingnumber of those who are interested in the movement for the substitutionof Law for War in international affairs.
J.F.G.
INTRODUCTION TO THE ENGLISH EDITION.
It is natural that the advocates of international Peace should[Pg xi]sometimes grow discouraged and impatient through what they are temptedto consider the slow progress of their cause. Sudden outbursts ofpopular feeling, selfish plans for national aggrandisement, unremovedcauses of antipathy between neighbours, lead them to overlook thegeneral tendency of circumstances and opinions which, when it isregarded on a large scale, is sufficient to justify their loftiesthopes. It is this general tendency of thought and fact, correspondingto the maturer growth of peoples, which brings to us the certainassurance that the Angelic Hymn which welcomed the Birth of Christadvances, slowly it may be as men count slowness, but at leastunmistakably, towards fulfilment. There are pauses and interruptionsin the movement; but, on the whole, no one who patiently regards thecourse of human history can doubt that we are drawing nearer fromgeneration to generation to a practical sense of that brotherh