DISRAELI'S PRESCIENCE.
FORESEES TO-DAY IN IS-iS. * LONDON, November 27. MurrayV have published the third" volume of Disraeli's •Life/ In it are quoted some remarkable pro- . pheeies. „ , „ . ' Disraeli told Oobdcn in 1S48:—"It ismadncs* to expect universal peace be- - cause of the fact that America and England were rich and contented. War.** were not made by such Powers, but hy ' a race or Prince*who agitates for petition." Disraeli's rare prescience when tha disnuto between Prussia anc ; Denmark, which ended in the annexation of the DanUh provinces, was beginnim; in 18 IS. brushed aside the. ostensible nretexLs for Prussia's action, and h.> tinted out- that it meant: "An eventual challenge to England upon the sea." lie further nredicted : "The intellectual march of atheism may l«»d.to o revival of national idolatories modified mytJiically ami dressed up according to the spirit of the age," _ 1 -'*i This last finds fulfilment in Nietzsche's Ocrmanv to-day.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 15138, 30 November 1914, Page 7
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