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 1
But the church , even before her union with the state under Constantine in the fourth century , had sadly degenerated in this as in other respects ; and , ever since that fatal era , she has lent her sanction to the custom of war ...
But the church , even before her union with the state under Constantine in the fourth century , had sadly degenerated in this as in other respects ; and , ever since that fatal era , she has lent her sanction to the custom of war ...
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We may disagree concerning the strict inviolability of human life , on the subject of capital punishments , respecting the right of the magistrate to use the sword in suppressing mobs and insurrections ; but these points form no part of ...
We may disagree concerning the strict inviolability of human life , on the subject of capital punishments , respecting the right of the magistrate to use the sword in suppressing mobs and insurrections ; but these points form no part of ...
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Wonderful has been the progress of human improvement in other respects . Let us then hope , that the law of nature will in time influence the proceedings of nations as well as of individuals , and that we shall at length be sensible ...
Wonderful has been the progress of human improvement in other respects . Let us then hope , that the law of nature will in time influence the proceedings of nations as well as of individuals , and that we shall at length be sensible ...
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It reverses , with respect to its objects , all the rules of morality It is nothing less than A TEMPORARY REPEAL OF THE PRINCIPLES It is a system out of which almost all the virtues are excluded , and in which nearly all the vices are ...
It reverses , with respect to its objects , all the rules of morality It is nothing less than A TEMPORARY REPEAL OF THE PRINCIPLES It is a system out of which almost all the virtues are excluded , and in which nearly all the vices are ...
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How much longer will men of any principle , conscience or self - respect , hire themselves out to the work of robbery and murder ? How long will professed Christians , or any Christian community , respect or even tolerate the military ...
How much longer will men of any principle , conscience or self - respect , hire themselves out to the work of robbery and murder ? How long will professed Christians , or any Christian community , respect or even tolerate the military ...
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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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