Thanksgiving in the Times of Civil War Being a Discourse Delivered in the First
Thanksgiving in the Times of Civil War Being a Discourse Delivered in the First
Nathan Sidney Smith Beman
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000. 000; the wars of the twelve Caesars, 30. 000. 000 in all; the wars of the Roman empire, of the Saracens, and the Turks, 60. 000. 000 each ; the wars of the Reformation, 30. 000. 000; those of the Middle Ages, and the nine Crusades in two centuries, 40. 000. 000 each; those of the Tartars, 80. 000. 000; those of Africa 100. 000. 000 ! If we take into con- sideration, " says the learned Dr. Dick, "the number, not only of those who have fallen in battle, but of those who perished by the nat- ...ural consequences of w^ar, it will not perhaps be overrating the destruction of human life, if 20 we affirm, that one-tenth of the human race has been destroyed by the ravages of war ; and, according- to this estimate, more than fourteen thousand millions of human beings have been slaughtered in war since the beginning of the world. " Edmund Burke went still further, and reckoned the sum total of its ravao-es from the first, at no less than thirty-jive thousand millions ! ! * These few facts, selected from many of the like character, show that war has been the great business of our wretched world.
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