From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.
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In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.
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| Birth: | 3rd June, 1804 |
| Death: | 2nd April, 1865 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Businessman |
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Richard Cobden was a British manufacturer and Radical and Liberal statesman, associated with John Bright in the formation of the Anti-Corn Law League as well as with the Cobden–Chevalier Treaty. He has been called "the greatest classical-liberal thinker on international affairs" by historian Ralph Raico."
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