All the Western nations, and some few of the Eastern, were represented.
"What does China care for the comity of nations?" said Li Tang Fwung.
- Well, Friday, and what does your nation do with the men they take?
At last says he, "Me see such boat like come to place at my nation." I did not understand him a good while; but at last, when I had examined further into it, I understood by him that a boat, such as that had been, came on shore upon the country where he lived: that is, as he explained it, was driven thither by stress of weather.
The revolutions of time furnish no previous example of a
nation shooting up to maturity and expanding into greatness with the rapidity which has characterized the growth of the American people.
So far, therefore, as either designed or accidental violations of treaties and the laws of
nations afford JUST causes of war, they are less to be apprehended under one general government than under several lesser ones, and in that respect the former most favors the SAFETY of the people.
The causes of hostility among
nations are innumerable.
"If Europe ever becomes a grand council of free
nations,--as I trust in God it will,--if, there, serfdom, and all unjust and oppressive social inequalities, are done away; and if they, as France and England have done, acknowledge our position,--then, in the great congress of
nations, we will make our appeal, and present the cause of our enslaved and suffering race; and it cannot be that free, enlightened America will not then desire to wipe from her escutcheon that bar sinister which disgraces her among
nations, and is as truly a curse to her as to the enslaved.
And how to develop a science of intercommunication, which commenced when the wild animals began to travel in herds and to protect themselves from their enemies by a language of danger-signals, and to democratize this science until the entire
nation becomes self-conscious and able to act as one living being--that is the part of this universal problem which finally necessitated the invention of the telephone.
Having provided everything necessary for our journey, such as Arabian habits, and red caps, calicoes, and other trifles to make presents of to the inhabitants, and taking leave of our friends, as men going to a speedy death, for we were not insensible of the dangers we were likely to encounter, amongst horrid deserts, impassable mountains, and barbarous
nations, we left Goa on the 26th day of January in the year 1624, in a Portuguese galliot that was ordered to set us ashore at Pate, where we landed without any disaster in eleven days, together with a young Abyssin, whom we made use of as our interpreter.
It was remarked, on a former occasion, that the want of this pretext had saved the liberties of one
nation in Europe.
To that world assembly of sovereign states: the United
Nations. .