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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We all regard war as a mass of evils ; as one of the worst scourges , if not the very worst , that ever smote our world ; as extremely pernicious in all its appropriate influences on the temporal and the spiritual interests of . mankind ...
We all regard war as a mass of evils ; as one of the worst scourges , if not the very worst , that ever smote our world ; as extremely pernicious in all its appropriate influences on the temporal and the spiritual interests of . mankind ...
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Let all classes , high and low , old and young , male and female , unite to bring this custom into general contempt and execration , as a mass of folly , sin , and misery . Such a process would soon bring war in Christendom to a ...
Let all classes , high and low , old and young , male and female , unite to bring this custom into general contempt and execration , as a mass of folly , sin , and misery . Such a process would soon bring war in Christendom to a ...
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Such is the change which the friends of peace are laboring to produce ; and fain would we entreat every lover of his country , his species , or his God , to lend this cause his utmost aid . AMERICAN PEACE SOCIETY , BOSTON , MASS . No.
Such is the change which the friends of peace are laboring to produce ; and fain would we entreat every lover of his country , his species , or his God , to lend this cause his utmost aid . AMERICAN PEACE SOCIETY , BOSTON , MASS . No.
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Would you be chaplain to å horde of robbers , or a gang of pirates ? AMERICAN PEACE SOCIETY , BOSTON , MASS . WAR CURABLE , OR THE POSSIBILITY OF ABOLISHING THIS CUSTOM 4 WAR AND THE BIBLE . 4-War and the Bible, 33.
Would you be chaplain to å horde of robbers , or a gang of pirates ? AMERICAN PEACE SOCIETY , BOSTON , MASS . WAR CURABLE , OR THE POSSIBILITY OF ABOLISHING THIS CUSTOM 4 WAR AND THE BIBLE . 4-War and the Bible, 33.
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... and such a process of exposure must be continued , until the mass of minds in every Christian land shall come to regard this relic of a bloody and barbarous paganism with a portion of God's own unmingled abhorrence .
... and such a process of exposure must be continued , until the mass of minds in every Christian land shall come to regard this relic of a bloody and barbarous paganism with a portion of God's own unmingled abhorrence .
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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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