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Excerpt from The Peace Reading-Book: Being a Series of Selections From the Sacred Scriptures, the Early Christian Fathers, and Historians, Philosophers, and Poets, the Wise and Thoughtful of All Ages; Condemnatory of the Principles and Practices of War, and Dedicating Them of True Christia
Ir is a circumstance deeply to be regretted, and one which calls for an immediate and effective remedy, that the education Of the higher and middle classes of the people in this and most other countries, is such as tends to cherish rather than discourage the love and admiration of war. 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.