Excerpt: ... amount of good: and that when he is endeavouring to do so, he is at least not fulfilling the worst part of his necessity. Nobody tells us, when we attempt to put out a fire and to save the lives of our neighbours, that Conflagration is God's daughter, or Murder God's daughter. On the contrary, these are things which Christendom is taught to think ill off, and to wish to put down; and therefore we should put down war, which is murder and conflagration by millions. To those who tell us that nations would grow ...
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Excerpt: ... amount of good: and that when he is endeavouring to do so, he is at least not fulfilling the worst part of his necessity. Nobody tells us, when we attempt to put out a fire and to save the lives of our neighbours, that Conflagration is God's daughter, or Murder God's daughter. On the contrary, these are things which Christendom is taught to think ill off, and to wish to put down; and therefore we should put down war, which is murder and conflagration by millions. To those who tell us that nations would grow cowardly and effeminate without war, we answer, 67 "Try a reasonable condition of peace first, and then prove it. Try a state of things which mankind have never yet attained, because they had no press, and no universal comparison of notes; and consider, in the meanwhile, whether so cheerful, and intelligent, and just a state, seeing fair play between body and mind, and educated into habits of activity, would be likely to uneducate itself into what was neither respected nor customary. Prove, in the meanwhile, that nations are cowardly and effeminate, that have been long unaccustomed to war; that the South Americans are so; or that all our robust countrymen, who do not "go for soldiers," are timid agriculturists and manufacturers, with not a quoit to throw on the green, or a saucy word to give to an insult. Moral courage is in self-respect and the sense of duty; physical courage is a matter of health or organization. Are these predispositions likely to fail in a community of instructed freemen? 68 Doubters of advancement are always arguing from a limited past to an unlimited future; that is to say, from a past of which they know but a point, to a future of which they know nothing. They stand on the bridge "between two eternities," seeing a little bit of it behind them, and nothing at all of what is before; and uttering those words unfit for mortal tongue, "man ever was" and "man ever will be." They might as well say what is beyond the stars. It...
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Near Fine Condition in Very Good jacket. Dust Jacket with minor edgewear. Edges greyed with dust marks. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Poetry; ISBN: 0874140277. ISBN/EAN: 9780874140279. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 10198.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 7x5x0; First Edition thus, 1984. Hardbound book. Book is in Very Good condition, with light handling, faint foxing to top text block, some shelfwear to tail of spine and edges of boards. Binding is tight, text and images are free of markings. Dust jacket is in Very Good condition, with minimal handling.
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As new in as new jacket. Iowa City: Friends of the University of Iowa Libraries, c1984. 112pp., black and white illustrations. Facsimile edition. sm. 8vo. As new unread hardcover, as new d/j.
