The book The Conscience of Europe the War And the Future was written by author Alexander Wallace Rimington Here you can read free online of The Conscience of Europe the War And the Future book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Conscience of Europe the War And the Future a good or bad book?
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The interests and happiness of the individual were sacrificed to the aims and ambitions of the Chief of the tribe or nation, or to the " national idea/' The State or its Chief claimed the entire manhood and dis- allowed all domestic ties, over-riding domestic virtues as antagonistic to militarist aims and necessities. Christianity slowly reversed this, and again and again by leagues and alliances has endeavoured to banish war altogether, although from time to time there have been relapses into ...Christian co-operation with poUtico-miUtary statecraft. In the very early centuries of Christianity it was against the conscience of Christians to engage in war, and it was only later that Christian Churches allowed themselves to a greater or less extent to become the tools of governments and to set aside the Christian doctrine of brotherly love and good-will for state purposes. Sophis- tical arguments on the side of war for all sorts of purposes were developed as the Church found it inconvenient to dissociate itself from the action of the State.
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