Even the horrors of war were softened, and humanity began to be spared such frightful sequels of triumph, as towns burnt to ashes, populations put to the sword, the wounded massacred in cold blood, or reserved to give a ghastly decoration to triumph.
Morley discusses the humanitarian effects of Christianity in mitigating the brutal consequences of war.
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To stint Ireland in power which might be necessary or desirable for the management of matters purely Irish, would be a great error; and if she was so stinted, the end that any such measure might contemplate could not be attained.
The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.
I don't myself believe in artful diplomacy; I have no gift for it.
It would be a happy day for the Peace Society that should give the colonies a veto on imperial war.
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