The Book of Peace: A Collection of Essays on War and PeaceSixty four tracts, compiled and edited by George C. Beckwith, corresponding secretaty of the American Peace Society. Each tract is separately as well as consecutively paged. |
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Page 1
But the church , even before her union with the state under Constantine in the fourth century , had sadly degenerated in this as in other respects ; and , ever since that fatal era , she has lent her sanction to the custom of war ...
But the church , even before her union with the state under Constantine in the fourth century , had sadly degenerated in this as in other respects ; and , ever since that fatal era , she has lent her sanction to the custom of war ...
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Were we to go to war for redress of the wrongs we have suffered , we should only plunge deeper into loss , and disqualify ourselves for half a century more for attaining the same end . These truths are palpable , and must in the ...
Were we to go to war for redress of the wrongs we have suffered , we should only plunge deeper into loss , and disqualify ourselves for half a century more for attaining the same end . These truths are palpable , and must in the ...
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Church and State , under Constantine , early in the fourth century . JEREMY TAYLOR holds war to be incompatible with the gospel . “ The Christian religion hath made no particular provision for the conduct of war , under a proper title ...
Church and State , under Constantine , early in the fourth century . JEREMY TAYLOR holds war to be incompatible with the gospel . “ The Christian religion hath made no particular provision for the conduct of war , under a proper title ...
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Even matters of religion were submitted to this strange test . In the eleventh century , the question was agitated in Spain whether the Musarabic liturgy so long used there , or the one recommended by the See of Rome , contained ...
Even matters of religion were submitted to this strange test . In the eleventh century , the question was agitated in Spain whether the Musarabic liturgy so long used there , or the one recommended by the See of Rome , contained ...
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... beginning of the present century ; difficulties which would once have plunged nations in blood , are now adjusted ... if continued only half á century longer , will probably supersede in time the whole war - system , by accustoming ...
... beginning of the present century ; difficulties which would once have plunged nations in blood , are now adjusted ... if continued only half á century longer , will probably supersede in time the whole war - system , by accustoming ...
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| Title | The Book of Peace: A Collection of Essays on War and Peace History of international law |
| Author | American Peace Society |
| Editor | George Cone Beckwith |
| Publisher | G.C.Beckwith, 1845 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 6 Jun 2006 |
| Length | 609 pages |
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