Excerpt from Pax Britannica: A Study of the History of British Pacification
In the following pages a synthesis is attempted of some of the more important facts and tendencies of British history, from the point of view of the pacific development of our cilivisation. If not so familiar a theme as the "arms and the man" of the poets and panegyrists of war, it may well prove to be a more profitable and heartening one, not entirely lacking, either, in the elements of picturesqueness and romance. It is a far cry from the Heptarchy to modern England, from the blood-feud and trial by ordeal or combat to the Royal Courts of Justice and the Hague Tribunal, from the Roman Wall and Offa's Dyke to the Rush-Bagot Agreement, from the state of society under Ethelbert or Stephen to the state of society under Victoria or Edward VII. If, however, a clue be found by which we can trace an ever-advancing victory of order over anarchy, of tolerance and friendly cooperation over provincial hatreds, sectarian bigotry, and international rivalries, throughout these ages, the annals of our country will be read with a fresh interest, and with a heightened sense of their importance in relation to our modern life.
I believe that the time is ripe for some treatment of British History from the standpoint indicated in the title of this volume.
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