I believe there is no permanent greatness to a nation except it be based upon morality. I do not care for military greatness or military renown. I care for the condition of the people among whom I live. Crowns, coronets, mitres, military display, the pomp of war, wide colonies, and a huge empire are in my view all trifles, light as air and not worth considering, unless with them you can have a fair share of comfort, contentment, and happiness among the great body of the people. Palaces, baronial castles, great halls, stately mansions, do not make a nation. The nation in every country dwells in the cottage. I ask you then to believe, as I do most devoutly believe, that the moral law was not written for men alone in their individual character, but that it was written as well for nations. If nations reject and deride that moral law, there is a penalty which will inevitably follow. It may not come at once, it may not come in our life-time; but rely upon it, the great Italian is not a poet only, but a prophet, when he says: The sword of heaven is not in haste to smite, Nor yet doth linger. JOHN BRIGHT. PRONOUNCING VOCABULARY Foreign sounds which cannot be exactly reproduced in English are represented by their nearest English equivalents. +Aerschot+ (är´skŏt) +Ailette+ (ail ĕt´) +Aisne+ (ain) +Aix-la-Chapelle+ (aiks´-lȧ-shȧ pel´) +Alsace+ (ȧl säss´) +Amiens+ (ȧ mee ăng´) +Ancre+ (äng´kr) +Andenne+ (äng dĕn´) +Aonzo+ (ä ōn´zō) +Arras+ (ȧ räss´) +Ausweiss+ (ows´vīz) +Auteuil+ (ō ter´yẽ) +Battice+ (bat tees´) +Belfort+ (bĕl fōr´) +Belloy-en-Santerre+ (bel wä´-äng-säng tair´) +Bernstorff+ (berns´torf) +Bethmann-Hollweg+ (bait´man-holl´vaik) +Boche+ (bŏsh) +Boelke+ (bāl´kẽ) +Boers+ (bo͞ors) +Bolsheviki+ (bol shay´vee kee´) +Bonnier+ (bon ee ay´) +Bordeaux+ (bor dō´) +Bouée+ (bo͞o ay´) +Boulogne+ (bo͞o lōn´) +Brest-Litovsk+ (brĕst´-lyĕ tŏfsk´) +Bruges+ (breezh) +Brussels+ (brŭs´elz) +Buccari+ (bo͝ok kä´ree) +Bueken+ (bee´kĕn) +Bülow+ (bee´lō) +Calais+ (kȧ lay´) +Cambrai+ (kam bray´) +Carnegie+ (kär nĕg´ĭ) +Castelnau+ (kȧs tel nō´) +Celle+ (tsel´ẽ) +Châlons+ (shä long´) +Champagne+ (sham pain´) +Chandos+ (chan´dŏs) +Charleroi+ (shär lẽ rwä´) +Château-Thierry+ (shä tō´-tee ẽ ree´) +Chaudfontaine+ (shōd fong tain´) +Chillon+ (shee yŏng´) +Cologne+ (kō lōn´) +Courtrai+ (ko͞or tray´) +D'Annunzio+ (dȧ no͝on´tsiō) +De Bussy+ (dẽ bee´see) +Deutschland über Alles+ (doich´lant ee´ber äl´ẽs) +Devon+ (dĕv´ŭn) +Dinant+ (dee näng´) +Dixmude+ (diks meed´) +Dniester+ (nees´ter) +Douaumont+ (do͞o ȧ mong´) +Du Guesclin+ (dee gay klăng´) +Dunajec+ (do͞on´ȧ yeck) +Dürer+ (dee´rer) +Duruy+ (dee ree ee´) +École+ (ay kol´) +Embourg+ (em bo͝ork´) +Épinal+ (ay pee näl´) +Evegnée+ (ĕ vain yay´) +Foch+ (fŏsh) +franc-tireur+ (fräng-tee rer´)