Peace and Progress
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Peace and Progress: Two Symphonic Poems War, as a means of settling international difficulties, is the stupidest as well as the most costly relic of barbarism. There are no valid arguments in its favour. It appeals only to the cruel and brutal instincts and passions of mankind, as do bull-fights and cocking mains, which are interesting as exhibitions of a certain kind of skill and a high degree of physical courage. The mechanical ability displayed in firing a cannon-ball and accurately demolishing a house or a man at a distance of eight or ten miles must arouse admiration. The marching and countermarching of well-trained regiments, the deploying of platoons of cavalry, the flashing of sunlight on polished rifles and sidearms, "the squeaking of the wry-necked fife," or the full splendour of the military band, have a picturesque value which tends to blind unthinking men as to the actual significance of it all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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