FORCE IN HUMAN AFFAIRS.

Waikato Argus, Volume I, Issue 70, 17 December 1896, Page 4

FORCE IN HUMAN AFFAIRS.

L'.ilsV Ot:i !• i;i:in, in the course of a speech a,t a banquet given in his honour by the Lord Mayor of London, said :—•

And now 1 come to the fecund uuuviution w hieh has been borne in upon me during my long contact with the outside wpilil, iiii'l it is this—that, in spite of Christianity, civihsalion, in spite of humanitarian philosophies, the triumphs lit scieutilie knowledge, in spile <i| tin: lessons of history and the bitter experiences of the more recent past, force, and >iot right, is still tlie dominant factor in Unman alhiir.; (hear, hear), and that no nation".-; independence or possessions are Kifc for a moment unless she can guard them with her own right hand. (Cheers). (,'uiet, stay-at-home p. oplc in Knglaud, who, as their fathers before them for so many generations, have passed their untroubled lives in blissful ignorance of what invasion mean?, can scarcely bring themselves to believe in the actuality n[ tlie ruthless ravages of war, in disaster and defeat racing through tlie bind, with its aecompaniments of disbanded armies, violated women, aid binning and plundered towns. And yet these scenes have been enacted not. x> long ago within a few hundred miles i'f our own borders, and have extended over the greater part of Kuropo, for not only France, but .Denmark. Italy, Turkey, I'olsnd, llulgaria, Austria, have each in turn been desecrated by the red uii'i of many a bloody battled. Id. Nor have j Atueriua, India, China, or Japan escaped I