This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... PART II APPENDIX THE HIGHER PATRIOTISM AND ITS RELATION TO THE CAUSE OF UNIVERSAL PEACE. By Rev. William S. Heywood, DORCHESTER, MASS. "It is not that I love country less but humanity more that ... I plead the cause of a higher and truer Patriotism."--Charles Sumner. "There is no Patriotism so coherent and mighty as that which stands conformed to the boundless Brotherhood of the Gospel. That Gospel makes all human slaughter fratricidal."--Bishop F. D. Huntington. The essentially wicked and reprehensible character of the great War System of the world, as it has existed and displayed itself in all past ages, is revealed not only in the more open and violent manifestations of its devastating power but in the subtle, malarious influence it has diffused through almost every department of human experience. While it has disturbed the otherwise quiet and orderly processes of domestic, social and civil life, destroyed the fruits of human genins and toil accumulated through long generations, laid waste cities and provinces without number, armed men with deadly weapons and sent them forth to mangle and destroy their fellow-men, strewn fair and fertile fields with the ghastly bodies of the dying and the dead, drenched the earth again and again with human blood, and multiplied many fold the agonies and tears of mankind, it has also woefully perverted the better instincts of the human heart, demoralized most grievously both private and public character, corrupted the fountains of human thought, and vitiated the very airs that nourish and renew the vital energies of the world. The pages of literature, which is the proper treasurehouse of culture, refinement, virtue and piety, have been debased and polluted by it, and history, which should be a...