a "supernational sovereign authority." The scope of any League--its
powers and its objects--should be clearly defined, and the independent
sovereign States should bind themselves, as contracting parties, to
carry out the terms agreed, and all should agree beforehand as to the
steps they would take to prevent or to punish any violation of those
terms.




CHAPTER VII

VICTORY AND PEACE

_Toi qui nous apportas l'épée_--
_Le glaive de Justice_--
_Et nous ordonnas de l'acheter_
_Fût ce an prix de nos tuniques,_
_Toi qui renversas les tables des marchants_
_Installés sous Tes portiques,_
_Donne à nos bras la foi et la rage à nos coeurs_
_Afin que la Victoire couronne de fleurs_
_Le front de nos enfants._--
EMILE CAMMAERTS, "Prière Pâques," 1915.


A few still perhaps remain of those who, as under-graduates at the time
of the Franco-German War, remember Dean Stanley's first sermons after
many years of exclusion from the Oxford University pulpit. Using in one
of them his favourite plan of giving life to ancient literature by