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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human form . Some had lost their hearing , others their speech ; and many , by excessive cold and hunger , were reduced to such a state of stupid frenzy , that they roasted the dead bodies for food , and even gnawed their own hands and ...
human form . Some had lost their hearing , others their speech ; and many , by excessive cold and hunger , were reduced to such a state of stupid frenzy , that they roasted the dead bodies for food , and even gnawed their own hands and ...
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Wonderful has been the progress of human improvement in other respects . Let us then hope , that the law of nature will in time influence the proceedings of nations as well as of individuals , and that we shall at length be sensible ...
Wonderful has been the progress of human improvement in other respects . Let us then hope , that the law of nature will in time influence the proceedings of nations as well as of individuals , and that we shall at length be sensible ...
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I hold it to be the greatest of human crimes . I deem it to include all others violence , blood , rapine , fraud , every thing which can deform the character , alter the nature , and debase the name of man .
I hold it to be the greatest of human crimes . I deem it to include all others violence , blood , rapine , fraud , every thing which can deform the character , alter the nature , and debase the name of man .
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... and also human skulls broken bones unburied and putrefying dead bodies — hospitals crowded with sick and wounded soldiers ... let the following words be inserted in red characters , to represent human blood NATIONAL GLORY !!
... and also human skulls broken bones unburied and putrefying dead bodies — hospitals crowded with sick and wounded soldiers ... let the following words be inserted in red characters , to represent human blood NATIONAL GLORY !!
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Do you regard debauchery , rapes , incest , and crimes of a dye still deeper than these , as foul disgraces to human nature ? Depend upon it , war leads to all of them in their most aggravated atrocity . Is impiety , or a total neglect ...
Do you regard debauchery , rapes , incest , and crimes of a dye still deeper than these , as foul disgraces to human nature ? Depend upon it , war leads to all of them in their most aggravated atrocity . Is impiety , or a total neglect ...
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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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