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man" said the graf old Hohhs.
"is . fighting animal" He might -
veil said that he 10 any other kind Of
animal. swonhippiug animal Soe in
stance. for man IL . msnysided ami
NAL. But IL 10 discredit OF disxrace 20
him, under the conditions Of his
growth 10 be called = fighting animal.
when We bear in mind that Noes in
his song Of victory declArs that "Jeho-
VI" the almighty maker Of man. rs .
man of war"
II in its origin and causes and occa-
, .ions OF conditions. war 10 evil. il IL
not all evil. It's character is deter
mined by the purpose for which il is
waged. II is good or bad lawful or
wrongful according 70 the motive that
impeis 10 il, and the object sought 10
he gained by il. II that motive be
british pugnacity or the mere love Of
power, or q false sense Of kingly OF
national honor-if the object bc the
establishment, and spread Of power or
dominion, the acquisition or extension
Of territory for the Qualification Of
ambition, greed Of possession or the
Arrangement Of hncied grievances,
a%ffronts OF indignities to = monarch or
a nation. Whether the motive be .
savage thirst tor blood. love Of glory
or conques; or greed Of gain. the
motive and the end are bad, and the
war itself wrongful and evil. But
waged in selfdefense. for the prescr-
walton of life and liberty and lawful
possessions, or in a word, waged in
vindication of eternal right il is need
full and lawful and right.
The right Of a nation to wage war
in self-defense or selfprotec.ion is
predicted on the right Of each and
every individual in it to employ physi-
cal force and material weapons for
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the safety
and preservation Of all those who are
naturally as endeared thereto as his
own life. II one Of these be lawful
and right the other must be likewise
SO. For . nation consists Of individ-
usls-and il it be lawful for each to
act in some given manner individually
it cannot be unlawful for any number
great or small Ia family or q nation)
70 act in the same manner conformity.
And the right 70 self-defense, l might
say the defy of selfdefensc is based
upon the right TO life and liberty.
The right to protect life and liberty or
self-possession is necessarily implied
in the right to have them.
Ifa man has a right to the life and
the liberty wherewith his Maker has
naturally endowed then he has a
right, in order to the protection and
the preservation Of the same to resist
every aggression upon the same by
every means within his reach, Mt any
and every risk Of consequences to the
aggressor. This is palmer than reason
or common sense-it is sound animal
sense.
There are evils in this world greater
than war or than the forcible taking,
or selfsurrender Of human life. Be-
cause the value Of that life is not in
%tfinsic but conditional.
Wrong ever uppermost in the
world, right trampled under the feet
Of tyrants-the masses Of the people
subject to perpetual oppressors, bercn
OF their liberty, in peril of their lives
and doomed by their expressions, the
Gains and Nimrods, TO hopeless toll
in EXTREMIST penury and want for sup
port and qualification of the few
would on every view Q worse condi-
tion-a greater evil than war for the
purpose Of human emancipation.
War is due TO aggression and the
disposition among n,en to agrees ON
human rights, and the aggrcssor is to
be held to account for it, and be made
to run all the risks and bear all the
consequences thereof. But for AZ.
erosion on the natural rights of man.
kind, i.e. oppression and tyranny, such
a thing as wal would never have been
known in the world. Talk of religious
wan. Of christianity, audits, creeds.
causing a and filling the earth
with carnage and bloodshed, it is all
dwelling nonsense. 1t is a foul ma
licious libel on that institution which
has done more to mitigate horrors Of
war and to do away with il than all
other causes put together. The men
who brought was about never thought
enough Of their religions and creeds to
fight or to expose their lives 70 peril
for them. No, it was something else
that kings and popes fought for
something to them far more substsn-
tial and desirable even for prestige
and power and possession which thew
arrogated pretensively in the service
Of religion and the support of her
creeds, and zeal for the creeds was
only the cloak--the pretext under
which they disguised their selfish
aims Little cared they for the creeds
apart from the worldly sdvantages
which they made the popular rage for
the creeds the means Of securing.
The Protestants and the Puritants en-
gagged in war i: il true, bat nos the
creeds. The charge il . Islander upon
them. Il was for the right Of men to
believe whatever they pleased or
believe nothing Whatsoever if they |
pleased that they fought II was
their prerogative 70 fight for il Who
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