During a war, a whole people become familiarized with the utmost excesses of enormity – with the utmost intensity of human wickedness – and they rejoice and exult in them, so that there is probably not an individual in a hundred who does not lose something of his Christian principles by a period of war.

“It is, in my mind,” said C. J. Fox, “no small misfortune to live at a period when scenes of horror and blood are frequent. … One of the most evil consequences of war is that it tends to render the hearts of mankind callous to the feelings and sentiments of humanity.”

War and Christianity are like the opposite ends of a balance, of which one is depressed by the elevation of the other.