“A DAY WILL COME”
PREDICTION BY VICTOR HUGO. A day will come when the only battlefield will be the market open to commence, and the mind opening to new ideas. A day will come when bullets and bombshells will be replaced by votes, by the universal suffrage of nations, by arbitration of a sovereign senate, which will be to Europe what the Parliament is to England. . . A day will come when a cannon ball will be exhibited in public museums, just as an instrument of torture is now, and the people will be astonished how such a thing could have been. A day will come when these two immense groups, the United States of America and the United States of Europe shall be seen extending the hand of fellowship across the ocean, exchanging their products, their industry, their arts, their genius clearing the earth peopling the desert, improving creation under the eye of the Creator and uniting for the good of all these two irresistible and infinite powers, the fraternity of men and the power of God.—From the opening address by Victor Hugo at the Peace Conference of 1849.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 February 1943, Page 4
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189“A DAY WILL COME” Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 February 1943, Page 4
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