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 9
If not , you know little of war ; and we wish to furnish you with a brief sketch of its NATURE AND EFFECTS . I. Mark , then , THE WASTE OF PROPERTY BY WAR . It not only demands for its support vast sums of money , but dries up the main ...
If not , you know little of war ; and we wish to furnish you with a brief sketch of its NATURE AND EFFECTS . I. Mark , then , THE WASTE OF PROPERTY BY WAR . It not only demands for its support vast sums of money , but dries up the main ...
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They who allow no war to be lawful , have consulted both nature and religion much better than they who think it may be entered into to comply with the ambition , covetousness , or revenge of the greatest princes and monarchs upon ...
They who allow no war to be lawful , have consulted both nature and religion much better than they who think it may be entered into to comply with the ambition , covetousness , or revenge of the greatest princes and monarchs upon ...
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Are there no means of coercing injustice more gratifying to our nature than a waste of the blood of thousands , and of the labor of millions of our fellow - creatures ? — Wonderful has been the progress of human improvement in other ...
Are there no means of coercing injustice more gratifying to our nature than a waste of the blood of thousands , and of the labor of millions of our fellow - creatures ? — Wonderful has been the progress of human improvement in other ...
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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 . " were more accusPHILOSOPHERS . We need not quote largely from philosophers ...
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 . " were more accusPHILOSOPHERS . We need not quote largely from philosophers ...
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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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