MR. COBDEN'S MOTION ON INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION
... t THE practice of War is not only congenial to r depraved human nature, bat it has obtained a kind of E consecration from the illustrations it has afforded of valour and patriotism, and from the lofty genius of the ,t poets and historians who have sung or recorded its e achievements. By these means the work of wholesale destruction has been strangely surrounded with a halo x of glory that ...