Swords and Ploughshares: Or, The Supplanting of the System of War by the System of LawLondon, 1912 - 249 pages |
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... becomes not only a possibility , but a practical necessity . Its prototype has been tested for nearly a century and a quarter . When Washington , Franklin , Madison , and their great compeers , less than a hundred in all , sat down in ...
... becomes not only a possibility , but a practical necessity . Its prototype has been tested for nearly a century and a quarter . When Washington , Franklin , Madison , and their great compeers , less than a hundred in all , sat down in ...
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... become the great torch of liberty enlightening the whole world , throwing its beams to far Cathay and waking the myriads from slumber , lightening the gloom of suffering millions the world over , by showing where to find the key to ...
... become the great torch of liberty enlightening the whole world , throwing its beams to far Cathay and waking the myriads from slumber , lightening the gloom of suffering millions the world over , by showing where to find the key to ...
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... become the acknowledged arbiter between governments . The year that opens the Third Hague Confer- ence , 1915 , will mark the centenary of the founding of the first Peace Society the world ever saw . When the New York merchant , David ...
... become the acknowledged arbiter between governments . The year that opens the Third Hague Confer- ence , 1915 , will mark the centenary of the founding of the first Peace Society the world ever saw . When the New York merchant , David ...
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... become a world power when Dewey sank a few old Spanish ships . Ever since the Constitution was ratified and began to serve as the basis of the dozens of national constitutions written since , we have been a world power , and have been ...
... become a world power when Dewey sank a few old Spanish ships . Ever since the Constitution was ratified and began to serve as the basis of the dozens of national constitutions written since , we have been a world power , and have been ...
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... become universal . It was an American missionary who first suggested a university where students could carry on investigation in the higher branches of learning , and it was this same missionary , Dr. Verbeck , who advised Japan to send ...
... become universal . It was an American missionary who first suggested a university where students could carry on investigation in the higher branches of learning , and it was this same missionary , Dr. Verbeck , who advised Japan to send ...
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Page 113 - And all merchant and trading vessels employed in exchanging the products of different places, and thereby rendering the necessaries, conveniences and comforts of human life more easy to be obtained, and...
Page 237 - The preservation of peace has been put forward as the object of international policy; it is in its name that great States have concluded between themselves powerful alliances; it is the better to guarantee peace that they have developed in proportions hitherto unprecedented their military forces, and still continue to increase them without shrinking from any sacrifice. " All these efforts nevertheless have not yet been able to bring about the beneficent results of the desired pacification. The financial...
Page 238 - The economic crises, due in great part to the system of armaments a entrance, and the continual danger which lies in this massing of war material, are transforming the armed peace of our days into a crushing burden, which the peoples have more and more difficulty in bearing.
Page 76 - That a commission of five members be appointed by the President of the United States, to consider the expediency of utilizing existing international agencies for the purpose of limiting the armaments of the nations of the world by international agreement, and by constituting the combined navies of the world an international force for the preservation of universal peace...
Page 237 - Government thinks that the present moment would be very favorable for seeking, by means of international discussion, the most effectual means of insuring to all peoples the benefits of a real and durable peace, and, above all, of putting an end to the progressive development of the present armaments.
Page 237 - The intellectual and physical strength of the nations, labor and capital, are for the major part diverted from their natural application, and unproductively consumed. Hundreds of millions are devoted to acquiring terrible engines of destruction, which, though today regarded as the last word of science, are destined tomorrow to lose all value, in consequence of some fresh discovery in the same field.
Page 77 - For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation.
Page 183 - WAR I abhor, And yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife; and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.
Page 238 - I'outrance, and the continual danger which lies in this massing of war material, are transforming the armed peace of our days into a crushing burden, which the peoples have more and more difficulty in bearing. It appears evident, then, that if this state of things were prolonged, it would inevitably lead to the very cataclysm which it is desired to avert, and the horrors of which make every thinking man shudder in advance.
Page 115 - The Contracting Powers agree to prohibit, for a period extending to the close of the Third Peace Conference, the discharge of projectiles and explosives from balloons or by other new methods of a similar nature.