The Age of Miracles--A Story of Franklin Pierce--Simon Suggs Billy Sunday--Jefferson Davis and Aaron Burr--Certain Constitutional Shortcomings I The years intervening between 1865 and 1919 may be accounted the most momentous in all the cycles of the ages.

The bells that something more than half a century ago rang forth to welcome peace in America have been from that day to this jangled out of tune and harsh with the sounding of war's alarms in every other part of the world.

We flatter ourselves with the thought that our tragedy lies behind us.

Whether this be true or not, the tragedy of Europe is at hand and ahead.

The miracles of modern invention, surpassing those of old, have made for strife, not for peace.
Civilization has gone backward, not forward.