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Excerpt from Address on the Truth, Dignity, Power and Beauty of the Principles of Peace: And on the Unchristian Character and Influence of War and the Warrior
Grecian States, may be judged from what Gray says (2d vol. Com. P. 126) that the war arose from an inconsiderable commencement, origin ating in a dispute between Corcyra and Corinth about Epidamnus, and, drawing in all the powerful states Of Greece, terminated in the ruin of Athens. The conduct of the different nations, when palliated or extolled by the historian, afibrdsfewproofs of moderation or equity. (p. The aggrandizement (of the Athenians) and the gratification of (their) te venge, constitute prominent subjects ofhis (pericles') praise, in an elo quent oration to the memory of those who perished in the first cam paign Demosthenes in his oration on the crown, speaking of the Athenians, describes precisely the spirit, which as Gray confesses, (p. 185) was calculated to involve them in eternal warfare, and viola tion of justice towards others. Their whole history, says the orator, was a series of noble contests for preeminence, the whole period of their existence having been spent in braving dangers for the sake of glory and renown. Not satisfied with the mere narrative of wars, and bat tles, and sieges, Avrian professes to have written the history of Alexan der's expedition, by divine assistance and Dion Cassius, as to his simi lar narrative, professes to have been excited to its composition by a divine dream: whilst Alexander himself professed during the siege of Troy, to have received promises Of divine assistance. It is impossible to disguise, much less to deny, the fact that without the wars and war riors of Greece and Rome, their history, so extensive, dazzling and eu tertaining, would be like satan transformed in Pandemonium.
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