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11 Advoc. Peace 1 (1854-1855)

handle is hein.journals/wrldaf11 and id is 1 raw text is: ADVOCATE OF PEACE. JANUARY, 1854. GERMAN WRITERS ON PEACE.$ BY HON. CHARLEs SURNER. The recommendations of Rosseau were encountered in Germany by a writer who will, probably, be remembered only, by his hardi- hood on this occasion. I allude to Embser, who treats of Perpetual Peace in a work first published in 1779, under the title of The Idol- atries of our Philosophical Century, (Die Abgotterei unsers philo- sophischen Jahrhunderts,) and, at a later day, appearing with a new title, under the alias of the Refutation of the Project of Perpetual Peace (Widerlegung des ewigen Friedens-projekts.) The objections, still common with superficial or prejudiced minds, are here vehe- mently urged ; the imputation upon Grotius is reproduced ; and the idea is pronounced visionary and impracticable, while War is held up as an instrument more beneficent than Peace in advancing the civil- ization of mankind. But the cause of St. Pierre and Rosseau was not without cham- pions. In 1763 appeared at Gottingen the work of Totze, entitled Permanent and Universal Peace, according to the Plan of Henry IV. (Ewiger nd allgemeiner Friede nach der Entwurf Heinrichs IV.) And in 1767, at Leipzig, was published an ample and mature trea- tise on tis subject, by Lilienfels, under the name of New Constitu- tion for States (Neues Staatsgebande.) Truth often appears con- temporaneously to different minds, having no concert with each other; and this work, though in remarkable harmony with the labors of Saint Pierre and Rosseau, -is said to have been composed without any knowledge of them. Lilienfels exposes the causes and calamities of War, the expenses of armaments in time of Peace, and the mis- erable chances of the battle-field, where controversies are deter- *From his Address before our Society in 1849. These extracts were not in editions formerly published by our Society. VOa. XI-NO. 1. MONTHLY.