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See also:GEORGE See also:PEABODY (1795-1869) , See also:American philanthropist, expression, addressed himself to the See also:law of See also:war as the See also:positive was descended from an old See also:yeoman See also:family of See also:Hertfordshire, See also:part of See also:international See also:jurisprudence and dealt only with See also:peace See also:England, named Pabody or Pebody . He was See also:born in the part as its negative alternative . The very name of his historic of See also:Danvers which is now See also:Peabody, See also:Mass., on the 18th of See also:February See also:treatise, De jure See also:belli ac pacis (1625), shows the subordination 1795 . When eleven years old he became apprentice at a of peace to the See also:main subject of war . In our own See also:time peace has grocery See also:store . At the end of four years he became assistant to attained a higher status . It is now customary among writers his See also:brother, and a See also:year afterwards to his See also:uncle, who had a on international law to give peace at any See also:rate a See also:volume to itself. business in See also:Georgetown, See also:District of See also:Columbia . After serving as a Peace in fact has become t See also:separate See also:branch of the subject . The volunteer at Fort See also:Warburton, See also:Maryland, in the War of 1812, he rise of See also:arbitration as a method of settling international difficulties became partner with See also:Elisha Riggs in a dry goods store at See also:George- has carried it a step further, and now the See also:Hague Peace See also:Con-See also:town, Riggs furnishing the See also:capital, while Peabody was manager. ventions have given pacific methods a See also:standing apart from war, Through his See also:energy and skill the business increased with astound- and the preservation of peace has become an See also:object of See also:direct See also:ing rapidity, and on the retirement of Riggs about 183o Peabody See also:political effort . The methods for ensuring such preservation found himself at the See also:head of one of the largest See also:mercantile con- are now almost as precise as the methods of war . However cerns in the See also:world . About 1837 he established himself in See also:London reluctant some states may be to bind themselves to any rules as See also:merchant and See also:money-See also:broker at Wanford See also:Court, in the See also:city, excluding recourse to See also:brute force when See also:diplomatic negotiations and in 1843 he withdrew from the American business . The have failed, they have nevertheless unanimously at the Hague number of his benefactions to public See also:objects was very large . See also:Conference of 1907 declared their " See also:firm determination to co-He gave £50,000 for educational purposes at Danvers; £200,000 operate in the See also:maintenance of See also:general peace " (la ferme volonte to found and endow a scientific See also:Institute, in See also:Baltimore; various de concourir au maintien de la paix generale)1, and their See also:resolution sums to Harvard University; £700,000 to the trustees of the " to favour with all their efforts the amicable See also:settlement of Peabody Educational Fund to promote See also:education in the international conflicts " (See also:preamble to Peace See also:Convention) . The See also:southern states; and £500,000 for the erection of dwelling-houses offer of See also:mediation by See also:independent See also:powers is provided for (Peace for the working-classes in London . He received from See also:Queen Convention: See also:art . 3), and it is specifically agreed that in matters See also:Victoria the offer of a baronetcy, but declined it . In 1867 the of a " legal See also:character " such as " questions of See also:interpretation and See also:United States See also:Congress awarded him a See also:special See also:vote of thanks. application " of international conventions, arbitration is the He died in London on the 4th of See also:November 1869; his See also:body " most efficacious and at the same time most equitable method " was carried to See also:America in a See also:British warship, and was buried of settling See also:differences which have not been solved by See also:diplomacy in his native town . (Peace Convention: art . 38) . In the final See also:act, the conference See the See also:Life (See also:Boston, 1870) by Phebe A . |
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