The War System of the Commonwealth of Nations: An Address Before the American Peace Society, at Its Anniversary in Boston, May 28, 1849The Society, 1854 - 80 pages |
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... disputes without first cutting one another's throats . When will hu- man reason be sufficiently improved to see the advantage of this . " - FRANKLIN . " La meme politique qui lie , pour leur bonheur , toutes les familles d'une nation ...
... disputes without first cutting one another's throats . When will hu- man reason be sufficiently improved to see the advantage of this . " - FRANKLIN . " La meme politique qui lie , pour leur bonheur , toutes les familles d'une nation ...
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... disputes , without appeal to the sword . * But the Trial by Battle , or judicial combat , furnishes the most vivid picture of the Arbitrament of War . At one period , particu- larly in France , this was the universal umpire in disputes ...
... disputes , without appeal to the sword . * But the Trial by Battle , or judicial combat , furnishes the most vivid picture of the Arbitrament of War . At one period , particu- larly in France , this was the universal umpire in disputes ...
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... disputes to their peaceful arbitration . 3 . Passing over other confederacies of antiquity , I come to the Han- seatic League , begun in the twelfth century , completed near the middle of the thirteenth , and comprising at one time ...
... disputes to their peaceful arbitration . 3 . Passing over other confederacies of antiquity , I come to the Han- seatic League , begun in the twelfth century , completed near the middle of the thirteenth , and comprising at one time ...
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... disputes , and referred with praise to the " great design " of Henry IV . Thus , by his writings , as also by his illustrious example in Pennsylvania , did he show himself the friend of Peace . 66 These were soon followed by the ...
... disputes , and referred with praise to the " great design " of Henry IV . Thus , by his writings , as also by his illustrious example in Pennsylvania , did he show himself the friend of Peace . 66 These were soon followed by the ...
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... disputes among nations , is a custom condemned alike by religion , reason , justice , humanity , and the best interests of the people ; and that , therefore , it considers it to be the duty of the civilized world to adopt measures ...
... disputes among nations , is a custom condemned alike by religion , reason , justice , humanity , and the best interests of the people ; and that , therefore , it considers it to be the duty of the civilized world to adopt measures ...
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Page 31 - What Constitutes a State? WHAT constitutes a State ? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate — Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned — Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride — Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No; men, high-minded men...
Page 2 - We make daily great improvements in natural, there is one I wish to see in moral philosophy; the discovery of a plan, that would induce and oblige nations to settle their disputes without first cutting one another's throats.
Page 27 - An Inquiry into the Legal Mode of Suppressing Riots, with a Constitutional Plan of Future Defence...
Page 80 - He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, And from the river unto the ends of the earth.
Page 6 - This right of natural defence does not imply a right of attacking : for, instead of attacking one another for injuries past or impending, men need only have recourse to the proper tribunals of justice. They cannot therefore legally exercise this right of preventive defence, but in sudden and violent cases when certain and immediate suffering would be the consequence of waiting for the assistance of the law. Wherefore to excuse homicide by the plea of self-defence, it must appear that the slayer had...
Page 17 - Horror-struck, we ask wherefore this hateful contest ? The melancholy, but truthful answer comes, that this is the established method of determining justice between nations ! The scene changes.
Page 7 - It may be as much a duty, at one time, to resist government, as it is, at another, to obey it; to wit, whenever more advantage will, in our opinion, accrue to the community, from resistance, than mischief.
Page 16 - Nearer came the storm and nearer, rolling fast and frightful on! Speak, Ximena, speak and tell us, who has lost, and who has won? "Alas, alas! I know not; friend and foe together fall, O'er the dying rush the living: pray, my sisters, for them all!
Page 17 - ... with shivered masts and ragged sails — exist only as unmanageable wrecks, weltering on the uncertain waves, whose temporary lull of peace is now their only safety. In amazement at this strange, unnatural contest — away from country and home — where there is no country or home to defend — we ask again, wherefore this dismal duel? Again the melancholy but truthful answer promptly comes, that this is the established method of determining justice between nations.
Page 2 - And so it is not a great matter how long men refuse to believe the advent of peace : war is on its last legs; and a universal peace is as sure as is the prevalence of civilization over barbarism, of liberal governments over feudal forms. The question for us is only How soon...