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ENQUIRY IN FOUNDA HIST 2VL (The Garland library of war and peace)
ENQUIRY IN FOUNDA HIST 2VL - The Garland library of war and peace Author:Ward General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1795 Original Publisher: Printed by A. Strahan and W. Woodfall, for J. Butterworth Subjects: International law Europe International law and relations Law / General Law / International Law / Legal History Political Science / International Relations / General Not... more »es: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 146 alone, £s feparated by religion from the ref! of the world. It is in this place hfcwever that we rnilft alfo confider them, as united irj a body with refpedt to the other quarters of the globe, 2nd give a fketch of their manner towards nations profeffing a religion different from their own. The trut fpirit of Christiakity, ird which we have approached much nearer than our anceftors, has in the prefent times inclined us to obferve the humane cuftoms which we pradlife ourfelves, towards all other nations, whether Pagans, Infidels, or Idolaters. But in the period before us, the falfe zeal of Chrif- tianity, or rather of a corrupted Church, induced the Weftern States to confider all thofe of a different perfuafion from themfelves, a a race of inferiour beings, devoted to wicked- nefs, whom it was therefore meritorious to1 invade, and with whom it was infamous tor treat. The yeivijh and Mahometan people, felt the force of thefe prejudices in u manner which excites our indignation at its injuftice, and our pity at its cruelty. As the former com- pofed pofed no tegular State', but were nierety tolerated up and down the world, it may at firft appear irrelevafiit to take notice of them, in a treaitife, whofe fubjeft is the general Law of States. But thoiigh widely feparated among fhe communities of the earth, they were all of them clofely connected...« less