Surprising things from reading Kant on Perpetual Peace

I first came across Perpetual Peace when reading about the London 1851 Great Exhibition. In particular I was curious what the main influences were for the strain of post-war cosmopolitan monumentalism that was on display at the crystal palace. Mary Campbell Smith, the translator of the 1903 English edition of Perpetual Peace seems to make a direct link between the text and this 19th century…