That web of concord is too tender yet, not to suffer under the rude strain of conflicts and concussions even such as we have no material share in.
John Morley: “That web of concord is too tender yet, not to suffer under the rude strain of conflicts and concussions even such as we…”
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Morley warns that fragile relationships can be harmed by conflicts, even if not directly involved.
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Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.
For this line of contention he was called an “unpatriotic trumpet of disaster,” and other names commonly bestowed on all men in all countries who venture to say that what chances for the hour to be a popular war is a blunder.
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