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... NATURE AND EFFECTS . I. Mark , then , THE WASTE OF PROPERTY BY WAR . It not only demands for its support vast sums of money , but dries up the main sources of a nation's wealth . Its victims are mostly men in the vigor of life . It ...
... NATURE AND EFFECTS . I. Mark , then , THE WASTE OF PROPERTY BY WAR . It not only demands for its support vast sums of money , but dries up the main sources of a nation's wealth . Its victims are mostly men in the vigor of life . It ...
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... nature and religion much better than they who think it may be entered into to comply with the ambition , covet- ousness , or revenge of the greatest princes and monarchs upon earth ; as if God had inhibited only single murders , and ...
... nature and religion much better than they who think it may be entered into to comply with the ambition , covet- ousness , or revenge of the greatest princes and monarchs upon earth ; as if God had inhibited only single murders , and ...
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... nature than a waste of the blood of thousands , and of the labor of millions of our fellow - creatures ? - Won- derful has been the progress of human improvement in other respects . Let us then hope , that the law of nature will in time ...
... nature than a waste of the blood of thousands , and of the labor of millions of our fellow - creatures ? - Won- derful has been the progress of human improvement in other respects . Let us then hope , that the law of nature will in time ...
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... nature , and debase the name of man . " man , PHILOSOPHERS . We need not quote largely from philosophers ; but in the van of them all we will place the great philosopher of common sense , our own FRANKLIN , a stanch opposer of the war ...
... nature , and debase the name of man . " man , PHILOSOPHERS . We need not quote largely from philosophers ; but in the van of them all we will place the great philosopher of common sense , our own FRANKLIN , a stanch opposer of the war ...
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... nature ? Depend upon it , war leads to all of them in their most aggravated atrocity . Is im- piety , or a total neglect of religion , the source of all villany ? Religion is always overwhelmed in the storms of war . " " The absurdest ...
... nature ? Depend upon it , war leads to all of them in their most aggravated atrocity . Is im- piety , or a total neglect of religion , the source of all villany ? Religion is always overwhelmed in the storms of war . " " The absurdest ...
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AMERICAN PEACE SOCIETY Apostles argument arms army battle bayonet benevolence blessing blood cause of peace century character Chris Christ Christendom Christian church civil common crime custom dead death defence destroy disputes duty earth enemies England Europe evil father favor fight fire forbearance France French friends of peace glory gospel Greece hands heart heathen heaven honor horrors human hundred idolatry individuals influence justice kill land lawfulness of war less lives mankind mass means ment military millions mind misery missionaries Moloch moral murder Napoleon nations nature navy never object officer pacific pagan passions perish precepts Prince of Peace principles profession punishment Quakers reason religion religion of peace Resist not evil rulers Russia savage says sentiment ships slaughter soldiers soul Spain spirit suffering sword Tatian TERTULLIAN thing thou thousand tion truth violence virtue war-system warrior wars whole wounded wrong