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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In little more than twenty years preceding the commencement of our efforts , the wars of Christendom are supposed to have wasted more than $ 30,000,000,000 , and sacrificed no less than nine millions of lives ; but its general peace has ...
In little more than twenty years preceding the commencement of our efforts , the wars of Christendom are supposed to have wasted more than $ 30,000,000,000 , and sacrificed no less than nine millions of lives ; but its general peace has ...
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We shudder at the thought of Alexander's sacrificing three millions of lives ; but his successors occasioned the destruction of twenty millions , the Saracens , sirty millions , and the crusades alone , forty millions of nominal ...
We shudder at the thought of Alexander's sacrificing three millions of lives ; but his successors occasioned the destruction of twenty millions , the Saracens , sirty millions , and the crusades alone , forty millions of nominal ...
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... of years have infested the world so much to the dishonor of Christianity , and in which the lives of more men have been lost than might have served to people all those parts of the earth which yet remain without inhabitants ?
... of years have infested the world so much to the dishonor of Christianity , and in which the lives of more men have been lost than might have served to people all those parts of the earth which yet remain without inhabitants ?
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We must study their sentiments in those noisome hospitals where they are crowded together , and where the sufferings they endure to preserve a languishing existence , too forcibly prove the value they set upon their lives , and the ...
We must study their sentiments in those noisome hospitals where they are crowded together , and where the sufferings they endure to preserve a languishing existence , too forcibly prove the value they set upon their lives , and the ...
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And can a soldier's life be lawful , when Christ has pronounced that he who lives by the sword , shall perish by the sword ? Can any one who professes the peaceable doctrines of the gospel , be a soldier ? Such views prevailed among all ...
And can a soldier's life be lawful , when Christ has pronounced that he who lives by the sword , shall perish by the sword ? Can any one who professes the peaceable doctrines of the gospel , be a soldier ? Such views prevailed among all ...
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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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