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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Agents , and tracts , and periodicals , and other instrumentalities , must be employed on a large scale ; and these will require , not so much money as the leading enterprises of Christian benevolence , but far more than most persons ...
Agents , and tracts , and periodicals , and other instrumentalities , must be employed on a large scale ; and these will require , not so much money as the leading enterprises of Christian benevolence , but far more than most persons ...
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Nations could , if they would , settle all their differences by amicable agreement among themselves ; and , should public opinion require them to do so , war would seldom , if ever , occur . - 2. Arbitration .
Nations could , if they would , settle all their differences by amicable agreement among themselves ; and , should public opinion require them to do so , war would seldom , if ever , occur . - 2. Arbitration .
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... to commit every species of offence— to pillage , to murder , to destroy human felicity ; and , for so doing , he shall be rewarded . The period will assuredly arrive , when better instructed generations will require all the evidence ...
... to commit every species of offence— to pillage , to murder , to destroy human felicity ; and , for so doing , he shall be rewarded . The period will assuredly arrive , when better instructed generations will require all the evidence ...
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It sprang from paganism ; its spirit is essentially pagan still ; and its laws every where require soldiers to obey their officers rather than God himself . Does it not thus dethrone Jehovah from the hearts of an army ?
It sprang from paganism ; its spirit is essentially pagan still ; and its laws every where require soldiers to obey their officers rather than God himself . Does it not thus dethrone Jehovah from the hearts of an army ?
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War requires and almost compels us to hate them . Do good unto all men . War does them evil , only evil . Lay aside all malice . War cherishes malice . Overcome evil with good .
War requires and almost compels us to hate them . Do good unto all men . War does them evil , only evil . Lay aside all malice . War cherishes malice . Overcome evil with good .
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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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