This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...rules of reasoning, would appear to be that for sole or separate action, with its risks, its burdens, and its responsibilities, there is in none of the parts of this great question any call whatever. If there is no call, there is no justification. If there is no justification, there is very serious ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...rules of reasoning, would appear to be that for sole or separate action, with its risks, its burdens, and its responsibilities, there is in none of the parts of this great question any call whatever. If there is no call, there is no justification. If there is no justification, there is very serious guilt. In animadverting with so much freedom on a state of feeling which appears to possess a portion of the public, and to be so little worthy either of the Christianity or the true manhood of the country, I do not refer to the attitude of the Government: first, because I am scarcely able to place upon it a definite and consistent construction; secondly, because its position, whatever it may have been two years or one year ago, has undoubtedly now become one requiring much temper, self-command, and prudence; and it should be the desire of every good subject and citizen not needlessly to look back upon the causes of its difficulties, but to avoid adding to them, and to contribute what he can towards bringing into good order those elements of public opinion and sentiment, from which alone it can derive efficient strength. I must leave it to others to admire the pirouetting of the British fleet in the Dardanelles and the Sea of Marmora; to vindicate the passage up the Straits in the name of peace and order, in contempt of the protest of the Power that possesses them; to explain how it is that, in the face of solemn official declarations from English Ministers, it is tacitly taken for granted by many that the object of this violent entry was not the protection of British subjects in life and property, hut to make a martial demonstration in immediate contiguity with Eussia, which, when translated into words, would mean, ' Remember that we mean to...
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