Cairnes, C: Coming Waterloo (Classic Reprint) -

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Excerpt from The Coming Waterloo HE last years of the nineteenth century had seen a growing spirit of unrest among the nations of the old world. Each one of them by the mouths of their leaders spoke loudly of peace, but each one prepared feverishly for war. The burden of the maintenance of these vast armies and enormous ?eets, under which all nations groaned alike, had be come so crushing that it was almost with a sense of relief, as of the man who half fears but half wishes to know the worst, that men at last recognised, in the spring of 1903, that the further maintenance of peace, or rather of the armed truce that the nations had grown accustomed to call peace, could no longer be relied on, and that it was at length only a question of a few days before the great nations of the continent of Europe would be locked in a life and death struggle for existence. 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.