I believe there is no other so deep and so real.

There is only one great object in the world which deserves our efforts, and that is the good of mankind." [168] Although France has been the unquiet spirit among the nations of Europe since the reign of Louis XIV., there have from time to time been honest and faithful men who have lifted up their voices against the turbulent warlike tendencies of the people, and not only preached, but endeavoured to carry into practice, a gospel of peace.

Of these, the Abbe de St.-Pierre was one of the most courageous.

He had even the boldness to denounce the wars of Louis XIV., and to deny that monarch's right to the epithet of 'Great,' for which he was punished by expulsion from the Academy.

The Abbe was as enthusiastic an agitator for a system of international peace as any member of the modern Society of Friends.