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Peace is not merely a vacuum left by the ending of wars. It is the creation of two eternal principles, justice and freedom.

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The Jews emerge into history, not a nation of keen spiritual aspirations and altruistic ethics, but that pagan people, worshipping rocks, sheep and cattle, and spirits of caves and wells, of whom the Old Testament, tending towards its higher ideal, gives fragmentary but convincing evidence.

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James T. Shotwell

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Born: August 6, 1874
Died: July 15, 1965 (aged 90)
Bio: James Thomson Shotwell was a Canada-born American history professor. He played an instrumental role in the creation of the International Labor Organization in 1919, as well as for his influence in promoting inclusion of a declaration of human rights in the UN Charter.
Known for:
  1. An Introduction To The History Of History (1922)
  2. The Great Decision
  3. The Religious Revolution of To-day (1913)
  4. Intelligence and Politics (1921)
  5. The Story of Ancient History (1961)

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