Excerpt from The Clean SwordWhen you use the sword for a wrong cause it becomes a bad sword, and the story of human life is full of tragedies caused by just this sort of fighting. We want to make it perfectly clear that we do not defend such use of the sword. We do not apologize for it. We repudiate it. We believe that it ought to be banished from the earth. And so important is it that the brutal tragedy of the unclean sword be understood that we shall devote the remainder of this chapter to its discussion.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.