On the record
But it is, on this very account, a perilous delusion to teach that war is a cure for moral evil, in any other sense than as the sister tribulations are.
Said by
John Morley
Source
gutenberg.orgJohn Morley: “But it is, on this very account, a perilous delusion to teach that war is a cure for moral evil, in any other sense than…”
Editor's note · Context
Morley warns against the dangerous belief that war can resolve moral issues, emphasizing its limited role in addressing evil.
Share
More from John Morley
Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.
People still believe that Russian diplomats are particularly crafty and clever, full of artifices and stratagems, but that is not the case.
They might learn how the true gentleman speaks of one whom he cannot but admit to have devoted a long life to the search of truth, and allow to have sacrificed every personal prospect to the promulgation of that which appeared to him as…
Gladstone protested against the bill as “inequitable, unusual, and unwise,” and it was largely modified in committee.
Other voices in this conversation
