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The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay
Vol. 1 (of 4)

BOOK XII
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Where communities are very large, the heavier evils of war are felt but by few.

The ploughboy sings, the spinning-wheel turns round, the wedding-day is fixed, whether the last battle were lost or won.

In little states it cannot be thus; every man feels in his own property and person the effect of a war.

Every man is a soldier, and a soldier fighting for his nearest interests.

His own trees have been cut down--his own corn has been burnt--his own house has been pillaged--his own relations have been killed.


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