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Excerpt from The Unseen Empire: A Peace Play in Four Acts His play, The Unseen Empire, of Atherton Brownell, is a study of the influences com prised in the war system of Europe, and of the way in which gigantic forces assembled in the name of peace actually make for war. It explains how the robber barons of a later time wring from the laboring people as cost for defense the same blood-money the robber barons of three or four centuries ago exacted as ransom or tribute. The weapons of this exaction are still suspicion and fear, the war-scare and the spasm of miscalled patriotism. In the name of Armed Peace, by playing on the vague idealism and the chivalry of common folk, they secure a toll as unscrupulous as any in the Middle Ages and far greater in actual amount. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.