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Instead of the pillage of the country and defenceless places, a custom has been substituted more humane and more advantageous to the sovereign making war: I mean that of contributions.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke discusses the evolution of warfare practices towards more humane methods of extracting resources from conquered territories.
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