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that concluded at Ryswick , in l 6 & 7 > He congratulates his cor * respondent , &n bis scruples which be could make i ; without the
least imputation of cowardice , ba ^ ving alreadygivea unquestionable evidence */ of an undaunted and feasted , spirit through the whole course of the late campaigns . '* He declares himself to 46 have often
admired what could possibly be the reason that men of excellent parts , both natural and acquired , of sound sense and good education , should * as , U vysre * luuid over head , voluntarily , without any
necessity or compulsion , thrust themselves headlong into arms , as if'a life of incessant fatigue , fearcU sbip and bayard were desirable , aod a mate ' s chiefest glory did
consist in having a commission to destroy hi * fellow creatures . ' * This propensity he attributes to the mijuence of , religious teachers '* ¦ ***© £ ¦ - which be thinks * ' the
Poprsir clergy have given abundant instance ^ justifying any cause or pc&ext ofone prince making war with another as they were influenced by ecclesiastical interests . " The following views of the origin
and objects of a passion for military ; glory may be censured as topgallant , though it might not be equally easy to prove them unjust . "The prince can at any time , itpon some fair and plausible
pretence ( for violence never wants a colour to justify its irregularity ) , either inake war upon his own subjects or call his people to arms , lead them into foreign regions
through heat and cold , want , necessity and ' danger , on purpose to cat * (* he throa t * of t \} o % u who never did him any hurt , perhaps on no batter occasion I ban the sansfacti « in Hvi . 2 * 0 pju Y * te re £ LuiUn ^ iU ,
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Wo ^ iicl uo < a ^^ f a man seriously to consider upon what in . considerable motives men axe thu * hurried to their owp and others , ruin ? To see gentlemeri and no . bleroen of good estates who may enjoy all the worthy , commendable pleasures of life without any in-, terruption , to see the husband , forsaking his wife " and children ^ the son , bis parents , the lover his darling mistress , and all these , the
true and easy enjoyments of life ,, n ^ y quitting the very possession of those things they wish most to enjoy , to list themselves into , the public service , exposing themselves and all they have , to chance and uncertain ty * only to . follow a noisy
piece of brass , or the sound of a stretched sheep skin , sternraing tumultuous seas , climbing over rocks and craggy mountains , travelling night and day , through woods and desarts ^ on purpose to
destroy those they never saw in their lives , nor never had any personal or particular quarrel with , and all this perhaps for reasons in which they are wholly unconcerned ; for . sometimes a fantastic prince will , in his humours and capricios run the hazard
of destroying a province upon as blight an occasion as a gc ntlemaa shall kick his footboy * The great men of the world are moved by the same springs as we , are subjected to tbe same passions , and
it * tbe evil principle has gamed the ascendanu there roust needs issue very fatal const quences vvbea wraih is joined wuh force u , ud power .. This plainly tHclar ^ s that most men ^ re falko fmi » i ibe
peaceful government oi Gud ' s eternal Ii&hi > and love mi < he djivlul dark kingdom ot vjoU warn and uppwi ^ i uj ^ wMm « ver > pfiBt-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1814, page 173, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2438/page/37/
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