Assertion: war | /r/HasProperty | wonderful trinity
Facets:
value: as a whole
type: MANNER
value: in relation to the predominant tendencies
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: War is, therefore, not only a true chameleon, because it changes its nature in some degree in each particular case, but it is also, as a whole, in relation to the predominant tendencies which are in it, a wonderful trinity, composed of the original violence of its elements, hatred and animosity, which may be looked upon as blind instinct; of the play of probabilities and chance, which make it a free activity of the soul; and of the subordinate nature of a political instrument, by which it belongs purely to the reason.