Excerpt from The Christian Attitude to WarButthegeneraleenseofmankindhaedeoidedthat thingsarenotsosimpleasthis, andmtristianduty not so one-sided. Even the texts make it possible to present the other view. The essential elements of Christianity, as it appears to intelligent non-christian races, are that it inculcates the sacrifice of everything in a righteous cause, and that its Founder was a man who gave his life for other men, and are not these thetwofaotswhioharejusttheredeemingsideofwar? It was a great general (shaman) who said, 'war is Hell, ' but a still greater (moltke) who said, War is the most devilish but also the most heroic of human things.'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.