MEMOIRS OF BERTHA VON SUTTNER
THE RECORDS OF AN EVENTFUL LIFE
VOLUME I I PART SEVEN
XL FROM HARMANNSDORF AND FROM CHICAGO – Slow increase · Far-reaching endeavors from our quiet corner · Childlessness · With Aunt Lotti · My brother · The World’s Fair at Chicago, and the Peace Congress · Olga Wisinger-Florian · I am represented by Olga Wisinger · Congress of Religions · Petition of the various ecclesiastical bodies to the governments in favor of a court of arbitration.
So now there existed in the capital of Germany a Peace Society, about which as a center branch society would presumably group themselves in all the larger German cities. The proposed task of forming a widespread public opinion was, therefore, well underway. I saw with delight, in my imagination, an undeviating development of the movement. I clearly recognized, however, that the beginnings were comparatively insignificant.
What were our two or three thousand organized members compared to the thousand five hundred million that populate the earth? And how puny, not only in numbers but also in power and reputation, compared to the representatives and supporters of the old system!
But what is the significance of the first violet-dotted patch of grass compared to the fields, stretching miles and miles, still covered with the snows of March? It signifies that the spring is at is at hand.
What signifies the first gleam of dawn penetrating the mantle of
night? It signifies that the sunrise is coming. Thus, I accepted the modest results achieved up to that time by the peace idea, and harbored no doubt that the element of spring, the element of light.
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MEMOIRS OF BERTHA VON SUTTNER
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