Excerpt from An Inquiry Into the Accordancy of War With the Principles of Christianity: And an Examination of the Philosophical Reasoning by Which It Is Defended

Tun object of the following pages, is to give a view of the principal arguments which maintain the indefensibility and impolicy of war, and to examine the reasoning which is advanced in its favour.

The author has not found, either in those works which treat exclusively of war, or in those which refer to it as part of a general system, any examination of the question that embraced it in all its In these pages, therefore, he has attempted, not only to inquire into its accordancy with Christian principles, and to enforce the obl' tion of these principles, but to discuss those objections to t advo cate of peace which are advanced by philosophy, and to examine into the authority of those which are enforced by the power of habit, and by popular opinion.

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