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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Success in this cause has been much beyond the means used , comparatively greater than in any kindred enterprise . Few are fully aware how much has already been gained . In little more than twenty years preceding the commencement of our ...
Success in this cause has been much beyond the means used , comparatively greater than in any kindred enterprise . Few are fully aware how much has already been gained . In little more than twenty years preceding the commencement of our ...
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We hold war to be morally wrong ; wrong in its origin , in its principles , in its motives , in its means , and all its legitimate results ; as a crying offence against God , and the chief sin of all ages and climes .
We hold war to be morally wrong ; wrong in its origin , in its principles , in its motives , in its means , and all its legitimate results ; as a crying offence against God , and the chief sin of all ages and climes .
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All our means for the accomplishment of this object are included in a right application of the gospel to the intercourse of nations . But communities are composed of individuals ; and the pacific influences of the gospel must be brought ...
All our means for the accomplishment of this object are included in a right application of the gospel to the intercourse of nations . But communities are composed of individuals ; and the pacific influences of the gospel must be brought ...
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We insist on the necessity of means . God accomplishes no ends without them ; and the means of his own appointment are just as necessary for the spread of peace as for the conversion of the world . Only such means we aim to use ; and we ...
We insist on the necessity of means . God accomplishes no ends without them ; and the means of his own appointment are just as necessary for the spread of peace as for the conversion of the world . Only such means we aim to use ; and we ...
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No fault of individuals or communities is incorrigible under the means of God's appointment ; customs very like war , such as knight - errantry and judicial combats , have already been done away ; certain kinds of war have actually been ...
No fault of individuals or communities is incorrigible under the means of God's appointment ; customs very like war , such as knight - errantry and judicial combats , have already been done away ; certain kinds of war have actually been ...
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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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