...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, f... ...e effect of a para dox, is in some respects creditable to the progress of civilisation, and the improvement of the moral senti ments of mankind. We ... ... it can only, they think, have been preserved to this period of ad vanced civilisation by a well grounded feeling of its adaptation to human nature, ... ... soldiers or Members of Parliament. In the feu dal ages, on the contrary, war and politics were not thought unnatural to women, because not unusual; ... ...claration, “The powers that be are ordained of God,“ gives his sanction to military despotism, and to that alone, as the Christian form of political g... ...remedied. Already, in many of the new and several of the old States of the American Confederation, provisions have been inserted even in the written C... ...reat in science, in public business, in legal and judicial eminence, or in war? There is abundant evidence that the Greeks were of old, as their desce... ... human being could excel; and by it men were made, what only political or military distinction now makes them, the companions of sovereigns, and the ... ...practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race; as a remarkable instance of a c...