Mother Bickerdyke
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Kellogg, Florence Shaw) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Mother Bickerdyke: As I Knew Her War is a corporate expression of the barbaric element still left in civilization. It witnesses to the ignorance, weakness and wickedness of man. Poor human nature, distrustful of its diviner leadings, unmindful of the heavenly guiding, rushes to war. There has never been a war that might not have been avoided had the saner counsels of the wise obtained. Frankly admitting, then, that the sword, bullet and bayonet are but extensions of the fang, claw and horn, it readily follows that the time is coming when, like their brute forerunners, they will gradually become ornamental traditions, then linger awhile as abortions until they are finally abolished forever. Meanwhile we must as frankly admit that there are conditions more dire than war; that liberty, justice and honor are more valuable than life, and that when these cannot be won or maintained in life or by living, they must be purchased by the blood of the noblest, the lives of the best. There can be but one supreme justification for war, viz., liberty and the just chances that go therewith. That war, then, is the noblest that secures the highest results in these directions. Judged by these tests, the noblest struggle ever waged on battlefield was that for the freedom of the slave and the preservation of the American republic in the years 1861-65 A. D. Measured by the number and gauged by the intelligence, courage, self-denial and humanitarian motives as well as by the momentous results, this war stands very near the shining line where war must cease. For war is to cease, not because it becomes too expensive, too terrible, or so triumphant that none dare challenge it, but because human nature will become too noble; men will grow too wise and women too influential to resort to such coarse, cruel and wasteful settlement of disputes which, settled by such methods, leave the main struggle still to be waged and the ultimate result still to be achieved. In round numbers there were enlisted in the service of the Union from 1861-´65 about 2,850,000 souls. 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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