"Politics will never
reform the world. They appeal only to men's passions and hatreds. They
divide us. It is Art that is going to civilize mankind; broaden his
sympathies. Art speaks to him the common language of his loves, his
dreams, reveals to him the universal kinship."
Mrs. Denton's friends called upon her, and most of them invited her to
their houses. A few were politicians, senators or ministers. Others
were bankers, heads of business houses, literary men and women. There
were also a few quiet folk with names that were historical. They all
thought that war between France and England would be a world disaster,
but were not very hopeful of averting it. She learnt that Carleton was
in Berlin trying to secure possession of a well-known German daily that
happened at the moment to be in low water. He was working for an
alliance between Germany and England. In France, the Royalists had come
to an understanding with the Clericals, and both were evidently making
ready to throw in their lot with the war-mongers, hoping that out of the
troubled waters the fish would come their way.
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