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 would take the best measures thus to change the war - sentiments of mankind ; but we decline , for many reasons , the use of tests and pledges for this purpose . 1. The pulpit we would place in the van of our auxiliaries ; for it is ...
We would take the best measures thus to change the war - sentiments of mankind ; but we decline , for many reasons , the use of tests and pledges for this purpose . 1. The pulpit we would place in the van of our auxiliaries ; for it is ...
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Burn villages , demolish cities , lay waste empires , send hundreds of thousands into an untimely grave , into a ruined eternity , all for the settlement of difficulties which can be adjusted only by an appeal to reason !
Burn villages , demolish cities , lay waste empires , send hundreds of thousands into an untimely grave , into a ruined eternity , all for the settlement of difficulties which can be adjusted only by an appeal to reason !
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Light niust be poured upon it from reason and history ; its enormous guilt must be set forth in the full blaze of revelation ; its immeasurable evils for time and eternity , must be spread as far as possible before every class in the ...
Light niust be poured upon it from reason and history ; its enormous guilt must be set forth in the full blaze of revelation ; its immeasurable evils for time and eternity , must be spread as far as possible before every class in the ...
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We have reason to bless God , that the number of those Christians who perceive and feel their obligations to seek the peace of mankind , is increasing from day to day . In the first ages of the Church , there were some who understood ...
We have reason to bless God , that the number of those Christians who perceive and feel their obligations to seek the peace of mankind , is increasing from day to day . In the first ages of the Church , there were some who understood ...
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Excuse was in vain ; for such was the fiendish temper of this brutal officer , he only wanted the shadow of a reason for dragging the poor helpless boys of his charge to the grating . While 6 . 70 MILITARY DISCIPLINE .
Excuse was in vain ; for such was the fiendish temper of this brutal officer , he only wanted the shadow of a reason for dragging the poor helpless boys of his charge to the grating . While 6 . 70 MILITARY DISCIPLINE .
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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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