Such a voice from the University is the token of a growing sentiment, and an example for the youth of our own day.

Such, according to him, is the extreme folly, the madness, of War, that on no supposition can it be otherwise than mischievous.

All Trade, in essence, is advantageous, even to the party who profits by it the least; all War, in essence, is ruinous: and yet the great employments of Government are to treasure up occasions of War, and to put fetters upon Trade.

The eloquence of Channing was often, both with tongue and pen, directed against War.

He was heart-struck by the awful degradation it caused, rudely blotting out in men the image of God their Father; and his words of flame have lighted in many souls those exterminating fires that can never die, until this evil is swept from…

By a long series of practical labors, and especially by developing, maturing, and publishing the plan of an International Congress, has William Ladd enrolled himself among the benefactors of mankind.

Now, at last, in the fulness of time, in our own day, by the labors of men of Peace, by the irresistible cooperating affinities of mankind, nations seem to be visibly approaching--even amidst tumult and discord--that Unity so long hoped…

By steamboat, railroad, and telegraph, outstripping the traditional movements of government, men of all countries daily commingle, ancient prejudices fast dissolve, while ancient sympathies strengthen, and new sympathies come into being.

Thus are achieved pacific conquests, where formerly all the force of arms could not prevail.

By the daily agency of the press we are sharers in the trials and triumphs of brethren in all lands, and, renouncing the solitude of insulated nationalities, learn to live in the communion of associated states.

From increasing knowledge of each other, and from a higher sense of duty as brethren of the Human Family, arises among mankind an increasing interest in each other; and charity, once, like patriotism, exclusively national, is beginning to…

Every discovery of science, every aspiration of philanthropy, no matter what the country of its origin, is now poured into the common stock.

Assemblies, whether of science or philanthropy, are no longer municipal merely, but welcome delegates from all the nations.

Great causes, grander even than Science,--like Temperance, Freedom, Peace,--have drawn to London large bodies of men from different countries, under the title of World Conventions, in whose very name and spirit of fraternity we discern the…

The Peace Congress at Brussels constitutes an epoch.

They have been welcomed throughout Great Britain, by large and enthusiastic popular assemblies, hanging with delight upon the practical lessons of peace on earth and good-will to men.

For this early effort, when the cause of Permanent Peace had never been introduced to any legislative body, Samuel Adams deserves grateful mention.

That, as Armed Peace, by its standing armies, imposes an intolerable burden upon the people of Europe, and endangers civil freedom, we therefore recognize the necessity of calling into existence a Congress of Nations, for the purpose of…

There is no necessity for feeding an army of military idlers and eaters.

Soldiers must cease to exist; then shall no more cities be bombarded.

I vote that the nations of Europe disarm at once.

So doing, we act not against Nature, but with Nature, making ourselves, according to the injunction of Lord Bacon, its ministers and interpreters.

Changes already wrought in the Laws of War teach that the whole System may be abolished.

Prisoners taken in battle cannot now be killed; nor can they be reduced to slavery.

Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.