Fundamental Peace Ideas including The Westphalian Peace Treaty (1648) and The League Of Nations (1919): in connection with International Psychology and RevolutionsMacDonald, Arthur
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Fundamental Peace Ideas including The Westphalian Peace Treaty (1648) and The League Of Nations (1919): in connection with International Psychology and Revolutions
MacDonald, Arthur
Peace; Peace of Westphalia (1648)
In the peace treaty of Westphalia were these words: "The hostilities
that have taken place from the beginning of the late disturbances, in
any place of whatsoever kind, by one side or the other, shall be
forgotten and forgiven, so that neither party shall cherish enmity or
hatred against, nor molest nor injure the other for any cause
whatsoever." Will the peace treaty of Paris contain as generous and
noble words and stop all political wars forever, just as the peace of
Westphalia put an end to all religious wars?
Will the twentieth century Christianity, with its supposed greater
liberality and enlightenment, be as far-seeing, unselfish, and effective
as the Christianity of the seventeenth century?
Let the League of Nations answer yes.
Just as the spread of education and knowledge has gradually liberated
the intellect so as to undermine the ideas upon which religious wars
were based, so a similar process of enlightenment may be necessary to
cause political wars to cease.
REFERENCES.
The following references are only a few of those easily accessible in
libraries. The Cambridge Modern History (vol. 4) has a bibliography of
some 3,000 works and brochures on the Thirty Years' War.
Bougeant. Histoire des Guerres et des Négociations qui précédèrent le
Traité de Westphalie. Paris, 1751.
Bernard, Mountague. Four lectures in subjects connected with diplomacy.
London, 1868, 8º. Lecture I is entitled "The Congress of Westphalia" (60
pp.); comparison with other congresses is made.
The Cambridge Modern History. The Thirty Years' War, Volume IV.
Cambridge, 1906, III, 1,003 pages. It contains a most extensive
classified bibliography of the war, filling 150 pages.
Freytag, Gustav. Bilder aus der Deutschen Vergangenheit. Includes
chapters on Thirty Years' War.
Gindely, Anton. History of the Thirty Years' War. 2 volumes, New York,
1884.
Hausser, Ludwig. The period of the Reformation, 1517 to 1648
(translation). London, 1873, 8º, 456 pages.
Cust, Edward. Lives of the warriors of the Thirty Years' War. 2 volumes,
12º. London, 1865. The author is a military man.
Leclerc. Négociations sécrètes touchant la Paix de Muenster et
d'Osnabrug.
Puetter. Geist des Westphalischen Friedens.
INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY AND PEACE.[3]
The history of the world would seem to indicate that international
psychology is almost synonymous with international anarchy. For the last
30 or more years, as is well known, a general European War was expected,
predicated, and feared. This was the abnormal psychological condition of
diplomatic and military Europe until the present war caused its
realization. The world appears always to have existed in a pathological
condition of possible, probable, or actual war. The question is, "Shall
the world continue to this old way of international anarchism and
political pathology, or shall it make a supreme effort to shake off this
monstrous incubus of war?"
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