The justification of war, as the medium of civilization1850 |
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Strana 6
George Stephens. first blood shed in the world was that of Abel . Pro- bably the precedent of murder did not remain long without finding imitators . Tubal - Cain , to the grief of his father , became a fabricator of arms . The Abels of ...
George Stephens. first blood shed in the world was that of Abel . Pro- bably the precedent of murder did not remain long without finding imitators . Tubal - Cain , to the grief of his father , became a fabricator of arms . The Abels of ...
Strana 5
... its bearings I commenced long before the birth of the Peace Society . Hobbes and others have contended , from much ob- servation , that the natural state of man is War . The first blood shed in the world was that of Abel THE ...
... its bearings I commenced long before the birth of the Peace Society . Hobbes and others have contended , from much ob- servation , that the natural state of man is War . The first blood shed in the world was that of Abel THE ...
Strana 6
George Stephens. first blood shed in the world was that of Abel . Pro- bably the precedent of murder did not remain long without finding imitators . Tubal - Cain , to the grief of his father , became a fabricator of arms . The Abels of ...
George Stephens. first blood shed in the world was that of Abel . Pro- bably the precedent of murder did not remain long without finding imitators . Tubal - Cain , to the grief of his father , became a fabricator of arms . The Abels of ...
Strana 8
... blood , will have to bear the whole moral guilt . To kill a man is a bad action in a robber , but it is accounted laudable in a citizen or soldier who defends his life or country unjustly attacked . In this latter case , however , a ...
... blood , will have to bear the whole moral guilt . To kill a man is a bad action in a robber , but it is accounted laudable in a citizen or soldier who defends his life or country unjustly attacked . In this latter case , however , a ...
Strana 12
... blood is without any justi- fication , and , therefore , War , which involves the shed- ding of blood by wholesale , is villainous in the highest degree . They pause not a moment to reflect , that every thing in this world is only an ...
... blood is without any justi- fication , and , therefore , War , which involves the shed- ding of blood by wholesale , is villainous in the highest degree . They pause not a moment to reflect , that every thing in this world is only an ...
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acquiring advantages argument arms arts become better blood carried cause cease changed character Christian civilization condition conquest consequence consideration considered constitution continue course danger death defence dignity discipline duty earth Empire engage established evil existence fact feeling follow forms give greater happiness heart Heaven honour hope human independence individual injury interest involves Italy justice kingdoms land less liberty live longer Lord luxury mankind manner means medium military mind moral motives nations nature necessary necessity never noble object observation operation original passions Peace Society perfect Persians persons physical position possible practice present principles profession progress prosperity Providence quarter reason reflect regarded religious remain remark respects rest result rule shedding short spirit suffering superior things thousand universal virtue warfare warlike wars
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Strana 52 - Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.
Strana 57 - And he -shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off ; and they shall -beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks : nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. But they shall -sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree ; and none shall make them afraid : for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it.
Strana 15 - ... for with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people ; to whom he said, " This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest ; and this is the refreshing :
Strana 14 - But then it must be expedient on the whole, at the long run, in all its effects collateral and remote, as well as in those which are immediate and direct ; as it is obvious, that, in computing consequences, it makes no difference in what way or at what distance they ensue.
Strana 37 - Desires of sober Christians that long to see the Kingdoms of this world become the Kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ.
Strana 37 - Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew, the dog will have his day.
Strana 13 - They may plainly discover in all the useful and beautiful variety of governments and institutions, and under all the fantastic multitude of usages and rites which have prevailed among men, the same fundamental, comprehensive truths, the sacred master-principles which are the guardians of human society, recognised and revered (with few and slight exceptions) by every nation upon earth...
Strana 39 - In the present century a slow and silent, but very substantial mitigation has taken place in the practice of war; and in proportion as that mitigated practice has received the sanction of time, it is raised from the rank of mere usage, and becomes part of the law of nations.
Strana 7 - ... the several interests they have to manage between each other. VI. There is no room to question the reality and certainty of such a law of nations obligatory of its own nature, and to which nations, or the sovereigns that rule them, ought to submit. For if God by means of right reason imposes certain duties between individuals, it is evident he is likewise willing that nations, which are only human societies, should observe the same duties between themselves.
Strana 28 - God, and of obedience to his laws ; and it is not less certain, that by the prevalence of a lively and efficient belief, they would all be cured. If Christians in any country, yea, if any collected body of them, were what they might, and ought, and are commanded to be, the universal reception of the Gospel would follow as a natural, and a promised^ result. And in a world of Christians, the extinction of physical evil might be looked for, if moral evil, . . that is, in Christian language, sin, ..were...