The Two Swords

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Excerpt from The Two Swords: A Dialogue on the Christian Conscience and the War In this dialogue I have tried to set forth some of the conflicting considerations which in my judgment must weigh with a Christian in determining his attitude towards the war. There are on the one hand the enhanced sacredness which Christianity gives to the claim of the State, and the necessity laid upon us of expressing the law of resentment. There is on the other, the obvious discrepancy between the Christian temper and the spirit and conduct of war, together with the duty of judging ourselves before we judge others. In the positions of Bennett and Webster in this dialogue I have endeavoured to pourtray different attempts at valuing these considerations, - attempts which leave an element of unresolved discord in each case. Those Christians are to be envied who can go to war or who can refuse to fight without misgiving or reluctance. I write rather for and of those who can only make a practical decision with difficulty. Other points of view are represented in the dialogue only incidentally. For example, I have introduced a representative of an extreme Labour attitude, but I cannot claim to have done justice to this position or even to have attempted to do justice to it. I have used it rather to throw into relief the other attitudes of mind with which I am more particularly concerned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.