Augustine Birrell: Richard Cobden, visionary of world peace

==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war ==== Augustine Birrell From Cobden (1919) Cobden was too bent on immediate persuasion ever to be offensively didactic. Yet in his hearty and noble detestation of Palmerston’s wars and ways he incurred great unpopularity by using language about England that […]

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