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An Inquiry Into the Accordancy of War with the Principles of Christianity; And an Examination of the Philosophical Reasoning by Which It Is Defended. with Observations on Some of the Causes of War and on Some of Its Effects

An Inquiry Into the Accordancy of War with the Principles of Christianity; And an Examination of the Philosophical Reasoning by Which It Is Defended. with Observations on Some of the Causes of War and on Some of Its Effects


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: derful, and an unnatural appetite, that disposes men to be soldiers, that they may know how to live; and what reputation soever it may have in politics, it can have none in religion, to say, that the art and conduct of a soldier is not infused by nature, but by study, experience, and observation; and therefore that men are to learn it: ?when, in truth, this common argument is made by appetite to excuse, and not by reason to support, an ill custom. People do not often become soldiers in order to serve their country, but to serve themselves. An income is commonly the motive to the great, and idleness to the poor. To plead the love of our country is therefore hypocrisy; and let it be remembered that hypocrisy is itself an evidence, and an acknowledgment, that the motive which it would disguise is bad. By depending upon war for a subsistence, a powerful inducement is given to desire it; and I would submit it to the conscientious part of the profession, that he who desires a war for the sake of its profits has lost something of his virtue: he has, at least, enlisted one of the most influential of human propensities against it, and when the prospect of gratification is before him? when the question of war is to be decided?it is to be feared that he will suffer the whispers of interest to prevail, and that humanity, and religion, and his conscience will be sacrificed to promote it. But whenever we shall have learnt the nature of pure Christianity, and have imbibed its dispositions, we shall not be willing to avail ourselves of such a horrible source of profit; nor to contribute to the misery, and wickedness, and destruction of mankind, in order to avoid a false and foolish shame. It is frequently in the power of individual statesmen to involve a people in a war. Their restraint...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217772969
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 46
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 021777296X
  • Publisher Date: 12 Oct 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 100 gr


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