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I GLADSTONE ON WAR. I

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I GLADSTONE ON WAR. I To the Editor of the "Star." Sir, William Ewart Gladstone was born at Liverpool, December 29th, 1809. There- fore I thought it would not be inappropri- ate to quote few of his gems on war and to appear in your issue on his birthday. At Glasgow, on November 1st, I860, he delivered a speech on "The fundamental error of English Colonial aggraudise- ment.—"And what have been the great causes of wars ? They do not come upon the world by an inevitable necessity, or through a providential visitation. They are the direct and universal consequence of the unrestricted, too commonly of the unbridled passions and lusts of men. War is a case in which both cannot be right, but in which both may be wrong. 'Most of the wars will be found to belong to that less satisfactory category in which folly, passion, greediness, on both sides, have led to effects which afterwards, when too late, have been so much deplored. I am, etc., T. E. DA VIES. P?acp Sundav, 1917. T. E. DAVIES.

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