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But it is very dubious whether the spirit of war does not still colour our morality far too much.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “But it is very dubious whether the spirit of war does not still colour our morality far too much.”
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Bagehot questions the extent to which the spirit of war influences contemporary morality.
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