PERPETUAL PEACE
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Kant, Immanuel and Smith, Mary Campbell
“For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see,
Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be;
Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails,
Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales;
Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain’d a ghastly dew
From the nations’ airy navies grappling in the central blue;
Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm,
With the standards of the peoples plunging thro’ the thunder-storm;
Till the war-drum throbb’d no longer, and the battle-flags were furl’d
In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.
There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe,
And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law.”
Tennyson: Locksley Hall.
PERPETUAL PEACE A PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAY
BY IMMANUEL KANT
1795
TRANSLATED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY M. CAMPBELL SMITH, M.A.
WITH A PREFACE BY PROFESSOR LATTA
LONDON: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD. RUSKIN HOUSE 40 MUSEUM STREET, W.C. NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
First Edition, 1903 Second Impression, February 1915 Third ” February 1917