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Show There has not been a single year of peace since this century begun. In the first fifteen years there was war overall Europe extending to this continent. In the next ten years Mexico, Central and South America were involved. In the next twenty-five years tho great European powers carried on wars in Africa and Asia, followed by the Crimean war and other wars in various countries in Europe, Since 1600, England Eng-land has waged forty-nine wars, France thirty-six, Russia twenty-one, Austria twelve and Pruis.-na seven. All this does not include the numerous revolutionary revolu-tionary movements and intestine struggles in both hemispheres, of our own Indian wars and civil war, all of which caused great misery and loss of life. We may boast of our civilization and brag loudly of the nineteenth century, but the facts stated show all such boasts and brags to l e brags and boasts only. |