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stratagems properly called frauds , nor are they inconsistent with justice 
nor with a well-ordered will. For it would be an inordinate will for any 
one to wish nothing to be concealed from him by other people. 
How, even a just war is undoubtedly a very dreadful thing. 
Armies meet on the field of battle; shot and shell rend the air; men fall to 
the ground like leaves in an autumnal storm, bleeding, agonizing, dying; 
the earth is reddened by human blood; the more glory the earth beneath the 
tread of one army, the louder the revel of victory in the ranks of the other. 
And, yet, once said truthfully an illustrious prelate,* “A just and neces¬ 
sary war is holy A 
“The men who at country’s call engage in such war are the country's 
heroes to whom must be given unstinted gratitude and unstinted praise. 
The sword in their hands is the emblem of self-sacrifice and of valor, the 
flag which leads them, betokens their country and bids them pour out in 
oblation to purest patriotism the life blood of their hearts, the shroud 
which spreads over the dead of the battlefield is the mantle of fame and 
of glory. 
“Happy the nation which has the courage of a just war no less than 
that of a just peace, whose sons are able and willing to serve her with honor 
alike in war and peace. Happy the nation whose jubilee of peace, when 
war has ceased , is also a jubilee of victory ” 
‘Arctib shop Ire and 
