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S 1 R,
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THE
All laws whatever permit war. Those tilings
are permitted by the law of nature, by the law of
nations, which are permitted each and every per
son; and, by the civil law, if a nation's or private
property is invaded, taken away, detained, or de
nied, it will be lawful to recover the fame, or an
equivalent, by the force of arms.
It is not however fufficient, that, by that reason,
ajl wars Should be just, unless they are also neces
sary: That war is not just, whose cause only is just,
but that,which is both just and necessary; it will
be just and necessary, when by no other means we
can affect and recover our right. A man may be
forced to kill another in his own necessary felf-de
fence, and then the fin is not in the flayer, but in
him that is slain; for, in all cases of force, not he
who is compelled to Strike the stroke, but he who
is the cause of the evil, bears the whole guilt. 'lf
a thief be found breaking, fays the Scripture, and
be Smitten that he die, there Shall no blood be died
for him;' For the fame reason, enemies may be slain
in a jud and necessary war; and it is no crime, but
ai^ honour, to be fuccefsful in destroying them:
But wars of mere ambition are direct murders.
Princes are never deficient in pretexts, and those
very specious, for disguising the injustice of war,
when they are intent on making it; yet it is the
height of inconlideration to engage in one without
an absolute necAlity. Pliny lays, chat the lynx is
of so greedy a disposition, that he quits the prey
he is sure of, to run after another which he dis
covers, and which notwithstanding he is not certain
of: So with him who engages in a war without
being absolutely obliged to it; he abandons the
sweets of peace, which he polElEs with certainty,
to obtain victories by the force of arms, which, in
the opinion of the wisest, have almoil always de
pended more on fortune than valour: He who
thinks to crush another under ruins, often finds
himfelf, when he thinks least of it, in the fame
condition; and the Prince who is bent upon ob
feuring the glory of some of his neighbours, often
fees his own honour exposed to the confufion he
prepared for them: He exhauhs his treasures, and
makes himfelf odious to his Subjects by -drawing
from their substance the neceharies for Supportin',
his wars; he leads his people into a field of Slaugh
ter; his own reputation is at Rake, and the rather,
as Providence takes pleasure in chaftifin, arro
gance and public injuhicc: He kindles a fire which
he will have fan: difficuirv to saringnifh, and in
Mr. Humphreys,
Las meek I sent you an Essay, on Peace which you
kindly inserted; if the following is worthy aplace,
by inferring it you mill again oblige
Tour's MENTO R.
E S SAY ^ W A R.
And thou fair Peace, from the wild Floods of War,
Come, Dove-like, and thy blooming Olive bear;
Tell me, ye Vidors, what Strange Charms ye find
In Conqueß, that Deftrudion of Mankind!
Unenvy'd may your Laurels ever grow,
That never flourish but in human Woe;
If never Earth the Wreath triumphal bears,
Till drench'd in Heroes Blood, or Orphans Tears.
Broome.
WAR holds the principal rank among those
evils which are called neceffiry. It is de
fined, by Cicero, ‘ a contention by force,' but cus
tom has given ' the Rate' and not ' the adion' that
appellation; so that ' war is properly the Rate of
thole contending by force;' because meh alone arc
not to be deemed enemies who actually attack by
sea or land, but also all others who make a Shew
of some intention to commit hoftilitics, though they
have not yet proceeded to adion.
There is scarce a controversy but may give an
cccafion to war. The jarring interests of Princes
and Nations, and their several pretensions on each
other's territories or poßLffions, excite them to de
sires of enmity, and, at length, banish from their
hearts all sense of the natural ties of benevolence,
friendship or alliance, which ought to subsist among
mankind: war is declared, and every contending
party flatter themfclves with the justice cf then mo
tives.
Numb. LXXX,