Show dream of perpetual peace returning in the early days of the war from froin a belligerent germany through a n mobilized switzerland and a partly mobilized italy to an america that was still unperturbed and unprepared I 1 revisited ill the famous museum of naples writes munroe smith in clis case and comment in one of the central corridors I 1 noticed an ancient mural inscription which I 1 had douht doubtless les seen before without appreciating its significance an inscription of the time of augustus to perpetual pence peace thus even in warlike rome and more than 19 centuries ago after a series of wars that had shaken the then world from the alps to the african deserts and from the pillars of hercules ner cules to the nile as after every great war that has since devad devastated europe mens minds were turn ing in with inextinguishable hope to tho tha vision of a warless future |