War and Criminal Anthropology, Including Official Testimony as to Armament, Military Training in Schools, Moral Evils of War, and Atrocities: Also Principles for the Study of Humanity, with Bibliography of the Author's Publications
War and Criminal Anthropology, Including Official Testimony as to Armament, Military Training in Schools, Moral Evils of War, and Atrocities: Also Principles for the Study of Humanity, with Bibliography of the Author's Publications
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ... a sermon, "There is no nobleness save that of purity and love, no gospel save that which preaches forgiveness, no joy like that of joining hands in 21 S j peace. For preaching this sermon the dean was compelled to resign and was publicly rebuked from the bench, by Justice Grantham. Another reverend gentleman said, "I ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ... a sermon, "There is no nobleness save that of purity and love, no gospel save that which preaches forgiveness, no joy like that of joining hands in 21 S j peace. For preaching this sermon the dean was compelled to resign and was publicly rebuked from the bench, by Justice Grantham. Another reverend gentleman said, "I personally refuse to think that the red-fool fury of modern jingoism is at all the true mind of the, ' British people at this time. It is an overgrowth, a product cooked by t deception from ignorance and excitement." For these utterances this, I pastor was compelled to resign. "It is a religious war; from the bottom of our hearts we can invoke the blessing of the Almighty God," says Dr. MacUregor. Paul declared that the weapons of his warfare were not carnal but spiritual; yet there are missionaries who recognize the religious power, of the bayonet and the Maxim gun. No wonder missionaries have! sometimes been killed by so-called heathens! Thus religious propaganda comes to be regarded as a form of foreign invasion. BOER WAR UNJUSTIFIED. Editor of London Echo: "In the whole history of England there is no war more unnecessary and unjust than the one in which we are now engaged in South Africa. I may be wrong, but If I am wrong, I can not understand the ferocity with which every criticism, every claim to freedom of speech has been suppressed. Why can not the full light of day be let in first on the raid; second, on the exclusion of the Transvaal from The Hague conference; third, on the persistent refusal of England to refer the dispute to arbitrators even when all foreign arbitrations were excluded." (Moral Damage of War, p. 193.) James Bryce, M. P. (November, 1899), says: "It seems a tragic irony before t...
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