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Page xxviii
... moral issue which is necessary in every modern war to make the conflict appear as a melodrama . As for the wickedness of secession , New England itself had de- bated seceding when , at the time of the War of 1812 , its trade with Great ...
... moral issue which is necessary in every modern war to make the conflict appear as a melodrama . As for the wickedness of secession , New England itself had de- bated seceding when , at the time of the War of 1812 , its trade with Great ...
Page xliii
... moral criticism of the course of our foreign policy : I am trying to disregard the pretensions to moral superiority with which we have attempted to clothe it ; I am trying- as in the book that follows to remove the whole sub- ject from ...
... moral criticism of the course of our foreign policy : I am trying to disregard the pretensions to moral superiority with which we have attempted to clothe it ; I am trying- as in the book that follows to remove the whole sub- ject from ...
Page 356
... moral condi- tion of the people . Unquestionably , every existing govern- ment on earth is to be overthrown by the growth of mind and moral regeneration of the masses . Absolutism , limited monarchy , democracy - all are sustained by ...
... moral condi- tion of the people . Unquestionably , every existing govern- ment on earth is to be overthrown by the growth of mind and moral regeneration of the masses . Absolutism , limited monarchy , democracy - all are sustained by ...
Contents
Harriet Beecher Stowe | 3 |
Calvin Stowe Francis Grierson The Battle Hymn | 59 |
Abraham Lincoln | 99 |
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