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- Gradually, everything that happens in the world is coming to be of interest everywhere in the world, and, gradually, thoughtful men and women everywhere are…
- There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way…
- Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much…
- No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils.
- War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition.
- Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural…
- The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while…
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