THE PRESENT STATE OF EUROPE.
M. Louis Kossnth has written a letter to the Seform Club of England, in which he giTes his opinion, at jut the preset state of Europe. The letter, which has excited wide comment, has this vigorous passage about the huge armament of the Continent:—" To see the social structure called States; converted into as many; gigantic barracks-^-the live sweat of nations drained to keep up armies counted by myriads, these myriads in the best rigor of their youthful strength, abstracted from productive labor"; all the soaring of human . intellect- made subservient to tue profession of wholesale international slaughter and destruction —verily this is a condition so utterly intolerable, that unless Governments are checked in their headlong course towards exhausting the patience of their subjects by draining their life sweat for nourishing the insatiable Molocfey of exorbitant armaments, it is absolutely impossible that the tottering structure of social organization should long escape the catastrophe oi an almighty in»Bb."
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4406, 16 February 1883, Page 3
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162THE PRESENT STATE OF EUROPE. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4406, 16 February 1883, Page 3
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