The Book of Peace: A Collection of Essays on War and PeaceGeorge Cone Beckwith |
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... character . It is thus that war has been invested with a most pernicious splendor , and men have offered to justify it as a blessing and an ornament to society , and attempts have been made to throw a kind of imposing morality around it ...
... character . It is thus that war has been invested with a most pernicious splendor , and men have offered to justify it as a blessing and an ornament to society , and attempts have been made to throw a kind of imposing morality around it ...
Page 365
... character , and we shall find both nature and education peculiarly fitting them for such a service . They are rightly termed ' the gentler sex ; their sensibilities are quicker , deeper than those of men ; they know better how to ...
... character , and we shall find both nature and education peculiarly fitting them for such a service . They are rightly termed ' the gentler sex ; their sensibilities are quicker , deeper than those of men ; they know better how to ...
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... character of a soldier as pagan , not Christian ! Oh ! that they had abided inflexibly by the rule , never to bear arms ! Then would the primitive church have bequeathed an illustrious , invaluable example to all posterity . Then pagan ...
... character of a soldier as pagan , not Christian ! Oh ! that they had abided inflexibly by the rule , never to bear arms ! Then would the primitive church have bequeathed an illustrious , invaluable example to all posterity . Then pagan ...
Contents
War Curable | 12 |
6 Four Aspects of War | 49 |
10Russian Campaign | 90 |
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