... I rejoice in that happy event, the newly formed Peace Society.
This is a fresh encouragement to our endeavors, a new reason to hope
for good results. To be sure there are still many prejudices to meet,
and perhaps also enmities to overcome; but that is only one more
reason for recognizing the necessity of having our efforts supported
by an imposing number of representatives of all nations. It is time,
it is high time, that genuinely universal demonstrations should—by
encouraging the timid—call forth an uprising of the conscience of
mankind, and that society should stand on its guard against the ruin,
the misery, the crime, by which it is threatened.
Frédéric Passy
Député de la Seine, membre de l’Institut et président de la
Société française de la paix et de l’arbitrage