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Twenty years ago, in a drawing room, I dared in the presence of forty persons to moot the proposition that war was incompatible with Christianity; I was regarded as an arrant fanatic. The idea that we could get on without war was regarded as unmitigated weakness and folly." The Catholic priest Defourney has expressed himself in the same spirit.
Men Think they can Accept Christianity without Altering their Life Pagan Conception of Life does not Correspond with Present Stage of Development of Humanity, and Christian Conception Alone Can Accord with it Christian Conception of Life not yet Understood by Men, but the Progress of Life itself will Lead them Inevitably to Adopt it The Requirements of a New Theory of Life Always Seem Incomprehensible, Mystic, and Supernatural So Seem the Requirements of the Christian Theory of Life to the Majority of Men The Absorption of the Christian Conception of Life will Inevitably be Brought About as the Result of Material and Spiritual Causes The Fact of Men Knowing the Requirements of the Higher View of Life, and yet Continuing to Preserve Inferior Organizations of Life, Leads to Contradictions and Sufferings which Embitter Existence and Must Result in its Transformation The Contradictions of our Life The Economic Contradiction and the Suffering Induced by it for Rich and Poor Alike The Political Contradiction and the Sufferings Induced by Obedience to the Laws of the State The International Contradiction and the Recognition of it by Contemporaries: Komarovsky, Ferri, Booth, Passy, Lawson, Wilson, Bartlett, Defourney, Moneta The Striking Character of the Military Contradiction.
"One of the first precepts of the eternal law inscribed in the consciences of all men," says the Abby Defourney, "is the prohibition of taking the life or shedding the blood of a fellow-creature without sufficient cause, without being forced into the necessity of it. This is one of the commandments which is most deeply stamped in the heart of man.
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