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The peaceably engaged foreign resident is now in all probability a trained soldier, and liable to be recalled to the flag of a possible enemy.
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Thomas Erskine Holland
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gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Holland highlights the potential danger posed by foreign residents who may also be trained soldiers in times of conflict.
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This being so, it is necessary to recognise also that increased humanity in the mode of making war has in reality followed upon the gradual softening of manners.
War is an element in the order of the world ordained by God.
Since compulsory service has turned standing armies into national armies, war has also become national.
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