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These wars have also cost other nations much. The 

 last one, besides burthening Britain to the amount of 

 X850,000,000, cost France X690,000,000, Austria 

 £220,000,000, the rest of Europe Xl,012,000,000, 

 the United States of America £27,000,000 ; total, 

 £2,799,000,000 ; a sum which probably falls consid- 

 erably below the actual cost of those wars ; nor should 

 we over-estimate their cost by putting it (reckoning 

 one pound sterling five dollars, or a little less,) at 

 $15,000,000,000, all wasted, worse than wasted, by 

 men calling themselves Christians, for the purpose of 

 plundering and destroying other Christians. Since 

 the great religious Reformation Great Britain has 

 spent sixty-five years in war, and sixty-two in peace. 

 She borrowed in seven wars, which occupied the 

 sixty-five years, £834,000,000. In the same time 

 she raised by taxes £1,189,000,000, thus forming a 

 total expenditure of $8,982,120,000. This enor- 

 mous sum, extorted from the strained sinews of labor, 

 would have constructed fifteen railways around 

 the globe, allowing $25,000 per mile ! To raise 

 another such sum would require a tax of $10 on 

 every human being on the globe. The interest of this 

 sum for one month at 5 per cent, exceeds the amount 

 contributed by the whole Christian world for preach- 



