The British Empire and World Peace: Being the Burwash Memorial Lectures, Delivered in Convocation Hall, University of Toronto, November, 1921 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Rowell, Newton W.

9780484217729: The British Empire and World Peace: Being the Burwash Memorial Lectures, Delivered in Convocation Hall, University of Toronto, November, 1921 (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0484217720 ISBN 13: 9780484217729

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Excerpt from The British Empire and World Peace: Being the Burwash Memorial Lectures, Delivered in Convocation Hall, University of Toronto, November, 1921

The committee appointed to select the second lecturer in the Burwash Memorial Lectureship series had the happiness to secure the Hon. N. W. Rowell, k.c., LL.D., a distinguished Canadian citizen. Mr. Rowell had recently enhanced his reputation as an exponent of high matters of Church and State by a notable part taken at the Assembly of the League of Nations. Being well known as a careful student of political principles and a wise interpreter of national conditions, it was assured that his handling of the problem of the maintenance of World Peace would be illumi nating and constructive. Large audiences in the Convocation Hall of the University of Toronto listened to these addresses and gave liberal indica tion of their appreciation. This volume, containing these lectures in but slightly altered form, is issued in the certain confidence it will contribute to a right understanding, more particularly on the part of Canadian citizens, of a problem of para mount importance and urgency. In this, as in other social problems of human welfare, the right attitude of will and feeling is not in itself sufficient.

There must also be the right understanding. And to this there is no royal road. Patient investiga tion, sympathetic reading of other nations' his tories and literatures, travel and sojourn within their borders, a cosmopolitan and liberal mind are required. To this end the chapters of this volume will make a worthy contribution.

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