_Cease Firing, Lay Down Your Arms_, “We speak for those (dumb animals) who cannot speak for themselves”; “I would not enter on my list of friends the man who needlessly sets foot upon a worm”; “He who is not actively kind is cruel”--are among the utterances of the hour that tip the farthest pendulum-swing from old Lucretius’ snarl. Wars must cease. The searchlight of civilization’s best thought and feelings is turned full upon war--showing its hitherto darkly concealed causes; its concomitant wrongs, sufferings, shamble horrors; its calamitous, nation-suicidal results. However necessary or inevitable the arbitrament by the sword may have been in the past, it is so no longer. Let wars cease: in the name of all the bloody battlefields from Marathon to Waterloo; and in pity for all the war-woe from Egypt’s Memphis down to Mexico--let wars cease. FOOTNOTE: [A] Death of General Nogi. TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources. Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained. ‘Blucher’ has been replaced everywhere by ‘Blücher’. Pg 12, 63: ‘Peloponessian War’ replaced by ‘Peloponnesian War’. Pg 12: ‘fractricidal strife’ replaced by ‘fratricidal strife’. Pg 13: ‘seemed jubliant in’ replaced by ‘seemed jubilant in’. Pg 14: ‘attacked vigoriously’ replaced by ‘attacked vigorously’. Pg 19: ‘a fugutive, bereft’ replaced by ‘a fugitive, bereft’. Pg 24, 25, 59: ‘Rennaissance’ replaced by ‘Renaissance’. Pg 29: ‘terror siezed’ replaced by ‘terror seized’. Pg 38: ‘what Seutonius says’ replaced by ‘what Suetonius says’. Pg 52: ‘Platea, Salamis’ replaced by ‘Platæa, Salamis’. Pg 53: ‘upheavel of any’ replaced by ‘upheaval of any’. Pg 59: ‘of Assissi:’ replaced by ‘of Assisi:’. Pg 59: ‘Cressy, Potiers’ replaced by ‘Cressy, Poitiers’. Pg 60: ‘Gibbons says:’ replaced by ‘Gibbon says:’. Pg 60: ‘by the Greks’ replaced by ‘by the Greeks’. Pg 66: ‘pentinential expiation’ replaced by ‘penitential expiation’. Pg 68: ‘what evancescent’ replaced by ‘what evanescent’. Pg 77: ‘conquered at Portiers’ replaced by ‘conquered at Poitiers’. Pg 89: ‘Beauvias were’ replaced by ‘Beauvais were’. Pg 95: ‘John, ideal Chirstian’ replaced by ‘John, ideal Christian’. Pg 98: ‘Ulich Ali, seeing’ replaced by ‘Ulrich Ali, seeing’. Pg 98: ‘were siezed as’ replaced by ‘were seized as’. Pg 100: ‘similar cricumstances’ replaced by ‘similar circumstances’. Pg 103: ‘as a maritine’ replaced by ‘as a maritime’. Pg 104: ‘Artistotle, master’ replaced by ‘Aristotle, master’. Pg 104: ‘Macchiavelli, serpent’ replaced by ‘Machiavelli, serpent’. Pg 104: ‘any more realiable’ replaced by ‘any more reliable’. Pg 105: ‘galeons and galeasses’ replaced by ‘galleons and galleasses’.