Short Essay On War For Kids.The chief business of war is to destroy human life, to bat-ter down and burn
cities, to turn fruitful fields into deserts, to scourge nations with faminie, to multiply widows and orphans.
Are these honourable deeds? Grant that a necessity for them may exist; it is a dreadful necessity, such as a
good man must recoil from; and though it may exempt them from guilt it cannot turn them into glory.
We have placed among the revered benefactors of the human race, the discoveries of arts which alleviate
human sufferings, which prolong, comfort, adorn and cheer human life; and if these arts are honourable,
where is the glory in multiplying and aggravating tortures and death?
cities, to turn fruitful fields into deserts, to scourge nations with faminie, to multiply widows and orphans.
Are these honourable deeds? Grant that a necessity for them may exist; it is a dreadful necessity, such as a
good man must recoil from; and though it may exempt them from guilt it cannot turn them into glory.
We have placed among the revered benefactors of the human race, the discoveries of arts which alleviate
human sufferings, which prolong, comfort, adorn and cheer human life; and if these arts are honourable,
where is the glory in multiplying and aggravating tortures and death?
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