The New York herald., 1875-09-27
VICTOR HUGO ON PEACE.

THE TWO EFFORTS IN CIvILIzATIoN-THE
FUTURE OF PEOPLES UNrTED-As THE DAY
DAwNs PEACE WILL ESTABLISH ITSELF.
The following Characteristic speech of Victor Hugo
delivered the international Peace Congress- is much
commented upon by the European papers,
There two efforts working in civilization-the
for the other against the effort of France and the
effort OF Germany. Each wishes to create a world.
THAI which Germany would make is Germany; that
which France would make Is Europe To make Ger
many is to construct the Empire-that is to say night;
TO make Europe Is to beget democracythat Is TO say,
the light Do not doubt but that the choice of the
future is made between these two worlds-the one
gloomy, the other radiant; the false, the other
true The future will divide Germany and France;
TO II will give its part Of the Danube, to the
other its part Of the Rhine, and to both will it
Grand Federal Republic of the Continent.
Kings ally themselves to fight, and make treaties of
peace which turn to of war; thence the mon
strous combinations of monarchca forces against all
social progress against the French revolution against
the liberty of peoples. This fratricdal frater-
nifty will cease and TO the Europe of kings coaesced will
succeed the Europe Of peoples united. Today No.
To morrow Yes Then let us have faith and wait
the future No peace till then say with pain but
with hrmness-France dismembercd is human
calamity.
FRANCE DOES NOT BELONG TO FRANCE
she belongs to the world. That human growth
to be normal, France must be entire; province
lacking France Is not force which fails progress
but organ missing to the human species; that
is why France yield nothing of France Her
mutilation mutilates civilization No sleep is
possible alas with wounds such Poland Crete,
Metz and Strasbourg, and after ahronts such the
Germanc Empire re-establIshed this nineteenth
cenury-Parls violated by Berlin The city of Fred
erck H. insulting the city Of Voltare the holiness Of
force and the equity of violence proclaimed progress
slapped upon the check of France-you cannot set
peace upon these things. TO pacify you appease;
TO appcase you must content Fraternity is not a
face fact Peace is not to be imposed Peace follows
causes You may more decree peace than you may
decree the dawn. When human conscience finds itself
balanced with social realities when the parceng out
Of peoples has given place to the unity of continents
when the encroachment called Conquest and
UsURPATIoS CALLED 'RoYALTY,"
have vanished; when the poor man understands the
necessity OF work, and the rich understand its maj
esty; when the gross side of man is ruled by the
spiritual; when appetite lets reason put muZzle on
IL; when TO the old law take succeeds the law
derstand; when the brotherhood of souls rests upon
harmony OF the sexes when the father respected by the
child and the child vencrated by the father when there
other authority but the author fgudnd ny Plus
ddutre aat0ytft que rdufeurj; when can say
20 another ''You my cattle ~ when the pastor
gives place 10 the doctor, and the sheepfod The who
says shcepfod says slsughterhouscl TO the school;
when Bonaparte is no more possible above tLan a
Tr0ppmann below; when the priest feels himself judge,
and the Judge feels himself priest-that Is when
hgion Is honest, and justice Is true; whenin short,
great many other things are diderent-then, 0s the
day dawns peace will establish ITSELF the day by the
rising o. the sun peace by the ascension Of right Such
- IL ~. 4 LaLL