. The New England magazine. ts may be, amongthe Old South leaflets. Another cen-tury passed on; and in 1795 came Im-manuel Kants sublime tractate onEternal Peace. Another centurypassed on; Tennyson has sung of theparliament of man, and Edward Ev-erett Hale has preached a permanentinternational tribunal; and in 1899 wehave seen, for the first time in humanhistory, the official representatives ofall nations gathered to take counseltogether for universal law and was fitting that they should pil-grimage together to the tomb ofGrotius, there to renew and deepentheir consecration to the gre
. The New England magazine. ts may be, amongthe Old South leaflets. Another cen-tury passed on; and in 1795 came Im-manuel Kants sublime tractate onEternal Peace. Another centurypassed on; Tennyson has sung of theparliament of man, and Edward Ev-erett Hale has preached a permanentinternational tribunal; and in 1899 wehave seen, for the first time in humanhistory, the official representatives ofall nations gathered to take counseltogether for universal law and was fitting that they should pil-grimage together to the tomb ofGrotius, there to renew and deepentheir consecration to the great serviceto which they were called. Americashould count it a holy honor that thevoice which spoke for the delegatesof the nations on that solemn occa-sion was an American voice; andlooking backward to Grotius andlooking forward to the future we ofthis new world republic should highlyresolve to do our part, as becomes thesons of the fathers who sailed fromDelfthaven, to bring in the reign ofreason and to organize the JAMES article on American History and English Historians. THE New England Magazine. New Series. APRIL, 1900. Vol. XXII. No. 2.
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