Swords and Ploughshares: Or, The Supplanting of the System of War by the System of LawLondon, 1912 - 249 pages |
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... killing , and the sceptics answer as before : " War is inevitable , it is bound up with human nature , ' or , as a certain military officer writes in one of the magazines : " As the unoccupied reaches of the earth's surface grow smaller ...
... killing , and the sceptics answer as before : " War is inevitable , it is bound up with human nature , ' or , as a certain military officer writes in one of the magazines : " As the unoccupied reaches of the earth's surface grow smaller ...
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... killing two men , wounding others , and hurried on appar- ently unconscious of the evil it had wrought . Instantly England was in white heat ; the press breathed forth threatenings and it seemed for a few days as if only blood could ...
... killing two men , wounding others , and hurried on appar- ently unconscious of the evil it had wrought . Instantly England was in white heat ; the press breathed forth threatenings and it seemed for a few days as if only blood could ...
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... killing human beings is treated by the press as if it were football , one is appalled at the effect which the power of sugges- tion must have over the minds of the youth , whose fathers , twenty - five years ago , knew nothing of " war ...
... killing human beings is treated by the press as if it were football , one is appalled at the effect which the power of sugges- tion must have over the minds of the youth , whose fathers , twenty - five years ago , knew nothing of " war ...
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... kill en masse , and it is not a question of killing a criminal , who is a menace to society , but of killing thousands of men who are patriotically serving their country according to their light , as our soldiers are serving our country ...
... kill en masse , and it is not a question of killing a criminal , who is a menace to society , but of killing thousands of men who are patriotically serving their country according to their light , as our soldiers are serving our country ...
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... killing other men at a distance of four to twenty miles are not the ones to discuss funda- mental issues which involve the need or right of killing . To understand explosives is one thing ; to understand racial and economic tendencies ...
... killing other men at a distance of four to twenty miles are not the ones to discuss funda- mental issues which involve the need or right of killing . To understand explosives is one thing ; to understand racial and economic tendencies ...
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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.