The object of this anthology is to rescue from obscurity the persons, groups and ideas that constituted the first internationally organized peace movement in the modern world. In the years 1815-1914, a period relatively free of war in Europe and generally considered by its contemporaries as a great age of progress, the conviction took root among a small but articulate number of professionals and politicians that war was becoming obsolete, a foolish, and a dangerous undertaking among civilised nations...