Excerpt from “Proposals for amusing posterity”
A quoted passage from Charles Dickens’s “Proposals for Amusing Posterity” muses about the possibility of combative people forming a “Society for Declaiming about Peace,” where by highlighting the horrors of war they convince their own nation to arm themselves in order to prevent being attacked. Dickens says that this would be “the very best joke we could hope to have in our whole Complete Jest-Book for Posterity.”
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-03-02