Excerpt from The Rise of Internationalism This study was begun in the piping times of peace when an appreciation of the marvellous growth made by international ism during a half-century inclined one to believe that a great war between the leading nations of the world was unlikely - if not impossible. The probability that pacific relations between the Christian Powers would be maintained had been strength ened by every effort towards international understanding and by the multiform expressions of a growing public consciousness that war is unnecessary, wasteful and inhuman. The reactionary force of a narrow nationalism was under rated in our hopes for the immediate fruition of fifty years of international cooperation. While the sentiment for the peace ful settlement of international differences was strengthening each year, there was developing in Europe a trigger situation which the old time secret diplomacy was impotent to cope with and for which there was no organization of the peace forces that could sense the danger or avert the disaster. Some one pulled the trigger, and the future must determine who was the international assassin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.