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Page 11
... common slaughter for one or two hundred thousand to be left dead on a single field ; and the Old Testament records an instance where one side lost 500,000 . * We shudder at the thought of Alexander's sacrificing three millions of lives ...
... common slaughter for one or two hundred thousand to be left dead on a single field ; and the Old Testament records an instance where one side lost 500,000 . * We shudder at the thought of Alexander's sacrificing three millions of lives ...
Page 6
... common sense , our own FRANKLIN , a stanch opposer of the war - system . " If statesmen , " says he , 66 were more accus- tomed to calculation , wars would be much less frequent . Canada might have been purchased from France for a tenth ...
... common sense , our own FRANKLIN , a stanch opposer of the war - system . " If statesmen , " says he , 66 were more accus- tomed to calculation , wars would be much less frequent . Canada might have been purchased from France for a tenth ...
Page 8
... common people robbed of their little , hard - earned property ; the great laden with taxes ; old people bereaved of their children , more cruelly killed by the murder of their offspring than by the sword ; women far advanced in age ...
... common people robbed of their little , hard - earned property ; the great laden with taxes ; old people bereaved of their children , more cruelly killed by the murder of their offspring than by the sword ; women far advanced in age ...
Page 2
... common it has been , if it is not still , to represent war , unlike any other custom , as a nat- ural , necessary evil that can be resisted no better than a pestilence , a tempest , or an earthquake . Strange miscon- ception ! Did you ...
... common it has been , if it is not still , to represent war , unlike any other custom , as a nat- ural , necessary evil that can be resisted no better than a pestilence , a tempest , or an earthquake . Strange miscon- ception ! Did you ...
Page 12
... common school , every academy and college , every seminary of learning , from the highest to the lowest , every fire - side in Christendom , be- come a nursery of peace , to train up a whole generation of peace - makers ; let all these ...
... common school , every academy and college , every seminary of learning , from the highest to the lowest , every fire - side in Christendom , be- come a nursery of peace , to train up a whole generation of peace - makers ; let all these ...
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AMERICAN PEACE SOCIETY Apostles argument arms army battle bayonet benevolence blessing blood cause of peace century character Chris Christ Christendom Christian church civil common crime custom dead death defence destroy disputes duty earth enemies England Europe evil father favor fight fire forbearance France French friends of peace glory gospel Greece hands heart heathen heaven honor horrors human hundred idolatry individuals influence justice kill land lawfulness of war less lives mankind mass means ment military millions mind misery missionaries Moloch moral murder Napoleon nations nature navy never object officer pacific pagan passions perish precepts Prince of Peace principles profession punishment Quakers reason religion religion of peace Resist not evil rulers Russia savage says sentiment ships slaughter soldiers soul Spain spirit suffering sword Tatian TERTULLIAN thing thou thousand tion truth violence virtue war-system warrior wars whole wounded wrong