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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... in a variety of instances , to avert the threatened horrors of war ; and other expedients than a resort to the sword for the adjustment of international difficulties , are fast coming to form the established policy of Christendom .
... in a variety of instances , to avert the threatened horrors of war ; and other expedients than a resort to the sword for the adjustment of international difficulties , are fast coming to form the established policy of Christendom .
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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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There are better means for such ends than the sword . 1. Negotiation . 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 ...
There are better means for such ends than the sword . 1. Negotiation . 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 ...
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Cruel treatment , bad provisions , unhealthy encampinents , forced marches , frequent exposures to extremes of heat and cold without shelter , and fatal diseases generated by such causes , destroy vastly more than the sword .
Cruel treatment , bad provisions , unhealthy encampinents , forced marches , frequent exposures to extremes of heat and cold without shelter , and fatal diseases generated by such causes , destroy vastly more than the sword .
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There is no more need of war in Christendom than there is of duels in New England ; it would be just as easy for nations , if they chose , to settle all their disputes without the sword and the cannon , as it is for us to adjust ours ...
There is no more need of war in Christendom than there is of duels in New England ; it would be just as easy for nations , if they chose , to settle all their disputes without the sword and the cannon , as it is for us to adjust ours ...
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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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