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Show 284 tells me. and l'agan and Christian philosophy alilte bow to the dictum, that I must do no more injury to my aggressor than will insure Il]\' own safety. It tells me that I must not take my aggressor's life if my safety can be assured by manning him. It tells me that l must not maim my aggressor if my life and property can be secured by other means, \'i'/.., a court of justice. This is the undeniable and universally recognized law governing the individual; this is the binding lziw ext-reised in family ties: this is the indisputable law, obligatory for stairs to obey. And T maintain that these principles of right. dictating to me. to you and trery individual. apply \iith eyrn greater Urgency to nations, l‘l‘lllb'k' individu: s, who flare up and tight in a moment of passion. they coolly take time jam WM to prepare for the slaughter. and thtrcinre are more hlamew'orthy than indiiivhzals ~uddenly atta ‘(ed and taltcn nnawarcs. .\ illlti (Ill ' my private abode. intent upon appropriating my pirsunal lil'fllit‘fl) and goods. l discover him in the act of r rap ‘ . 'l he law (if rightiwnsiti'ss demands that l have a right to (h min! in} property (\(n at the risl-c of my aggress-vr‘s blood. 'l hr‘ that in his ('ti'rit‘ts to escapi' in» ir-ngci' assumes the part of 4!" "gfllirw‘i and J hau- nu mor:' ' t to take his life. as m," ‘-.'tl<‘?\ ran lw sicurid. m} Itl‘HIrt rt} :i-virmii in other lawful means :1 Until vi justii‘c. As "lill indfr 'l . t 1." gation- of nun. .\ gmvti'il‘tltilt is no more than tin mdnidital. 'l'ht‘ ruglti gun be the right guida't; tln 11.312441. " :I i‘wwinn; Iil‘l'llltl jwipli (wow ‘ .‘ii‘cuiii‘iii‘ In the jiizia‘ipiiL . 2. 3. (lllltilllll 1h: hood of tlu ‘ - . a 3 '. 'ich (are but aggrerequired to do wrong ‘iridnal should ‘v country (ll.\* 7 ‘ i-. j, r .t . .. has not. prm'er to f'hlit‘e by li'tlrlllH tin allatiatwn. \Waw 21;:I‘lllll i l himurand Mlll'i'jvtt‘i. ~1u'h men :1»« "lies, :indii llamihwn. llinri ( , ltnm‘ Ul'unni-ll. U n-idtred it huiwrah't and llf'lll to 1‘l w m :i lillkl in st'ltli‘!u"'~i>1'lCutlllw\'l"‘. .: 5 .:~ " \\i.. .v « ‘ " protest. " e and tvppusnn n inwuhl :iiiw wn (\l‘\ -:" of undiuwiii ml "« l r . l \l.‘.l g, new and him 2. .‘li l {.llk ..j 4,: personal Ailliklilli'l _ ' - t :7 . .. men of ti ila}. men iity, {nix-sitilitcd- ‘ ,1 ; ‘.; writ) I‘I- adiasiin; 1,. man-n1, 4.1' international controversies there would be some court of appea l other than the battlefield; one would think that nations, mind ful of the ideas of righteousness, woul d not engage in blind conflict of force to establish the justice and supremacy of a claim. Therefore should not the ridicu le, the opposition, the punishment that would be encountere d, were individuals to settle per- sonal disputes by the sword, be appli ed to nations who, deplorable as it is true, continually invok e the power of the sword, that mockery of justice, to settle inter national difliculites? Ah, what barbarous recourse for the adjustment of international contentionsl How repul sive to the noblcr instincts of mankind! How incontestabl' at variance with the highe r ideals of civilization! That civilization whic h teaches man to put down his animal appetites and obey the higher dictates of his reason; that civilization which induces a nation to deal honestly with his brother: that civilization which is virtually the foundation of all government; that civilization whic h iinpcls nations to smother within themselves the fighting spirit, the inclination to declare war at the least provocation. Go back to the cradle of the human race, to the family of the first man. Realizing that in taking his brothers life he was acting in direct Opposition to the law of right eousness. (‘ain slew Abel. This was murder. Because of this act, he incurred the condemna- tion and curse of the infallible Judge , and he was cast forth a wanderer upon the face of the earth. No man challenges the justice of this Divine verdict. As families grew and multiplied and the human race was divided into shepherd tribes, when Lot and Abraham pitched their sheltering tents upon the sunny pasture fields of Mesopotamia, this unalterable law of righteousness still remai ned binding, and one tribe, on the plea of alleged wrong and aggression on the part of a neighboring tribe, hail not the moral right to demand forfeiture of life as a punishment and method of retaliation. So when civilization assumed larger proportion and the nations of s Babylon and Memphis appeared on the banks of the Nile and the Euphrates, the binding force of this unchange able law still remained, strikingly, a necessary concomitant of justic e. Therefore, originating in the family of Adam, susta ining its binding principles in the later evolution, the tribes of Lot and |