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Loss of life in (lie Jewish Wars, 25,000,000 



By wars in the time of Besostris, 15,000,000 

 By those of Semiramis, Cyrus, & Alexander, 30,000,000 



By Alexander's successors, 20,000,000 



Grecian Wars, 15,000,000 



Wars of the twelve Caesars, 30,000,000 



Roman wars before Julius Caesar, 60,000,000 



Wars of the Roman Empire, Turks ami 



Saracens, 180,000,000 



Wars of the Reformation, 30,000,000 

 Wars of the middle n^es, and nine crusades, 80,000,000 



Tartar and African Wars, 180,000,000 

 American Indians destroyed by the 



Spaniards, 12,000,000 



Wars of Napoleon, 6,000,000 



683,000,000 



" The above is a mere extract from the bloody 

 statistics of glorious war ; one chapter in the annals 

 of the violence, crime, and misery that have followed 

 in the foot-prints of the great destroyer. The loss of 

 souls is entered where human eyes may not read the 

 list. Dr. Dick estimates the number of those who 

 have perished directly and indirectly by war at four- 

 teen thousand millions, or about one-tenth of the 

 human race. Edmund Burke placed the number at 



