num_pages: 106
description: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1821. Excerpt: ... and millions of suns are ranged around us all attended by innumerable worlds yet calm regular and harmonious all keeping the paths of immutable necessity. IV. Page 87. These are the hired bravoes who defend The Tyrant's throne. To employ murder as a means of justice is an idea which a man of an enlightened mind will not dwell upon with pleasure. To march forth in rank and file with all the pomp of streamers and trumpets for the purpose of shooting at our fellow-men as a mark; to inflict upon them all the variety of wound and anguish; to leave them weltering in their blood; to wander over the field of desolation and count the number of the dying and the dead--are employments which in thesis we may maintain to be necessary but which no. good man will contemplate with gratulation and delight. A battle we suppose is won: --thus truth is established!--thus the cause of justice is confirmed! It surely requires no common sagacity to discern the connection between this immense heap of calamities and the assertion of truth or the maintenance of justice. Kings and ministers of state the real authors of the calamity sit unmolested in their cabinet while those against whom the fury of the storm is directed are for the most part persons who have been trepanned into the service or who are dragged unwillingly from their peaceful homes into the field of battle. A soldier is a man whose business it is to kill those who never offended him and who are the innocent martyrs of other men's iniquities. Whatever may become of the abstract question of the justiflableness of war it seems impossible that the soldier should not be a depraved and unnatural being. To these more serious and momentous considerations it may be proper to add a recollection of the ridic..
language: English
title: Queen Mab, a Philosophical Poem, with Notes. [Reputed to Have Been Given by the Author to W. Francis. Wanting the Title-Leaf, Dedication and Part of the Last Leaf].
publisher: General Books