..."We daily make great improvements in natural, there is one I wish to see in moral, philosophy;—the discovery of a plan that would induce and oblige nations...disputes, without first cutting one another's throats. When will human nature be sufficiently improved to see the advantage of this!" " Wonderful," says the...

...to see in Moral Philosophy [he wrote to Richard Price] the Discovery of a Plan, that would induce & oblige Nations to settle their Disputes without first Cutting one another's Throats. When will human Reason be sufficiently improv'd to see the Advantage of this! The aspiration is again...

...in natural, and there is one I hope to see in moral, philosophy; the discussion of a plan which will induce and oblige nations to settle their disputes without first cutting one another's throats." Franklin may be said to have been our first American advocate of international arbitration and the...

...PRESERVING THE LAST. BY WILLIAM JAY We daily make great improvements in natural, there is one I wiih to see in moral philosophy — the discovery of a...disputes without first cutting one another's throats. — FRANKLIN NEW-YORK: *WAR AND PEACE MORAL, as well as political revolutions, have frequently owed...

...under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. — Edmund Burke. make daily great improvements in natural, there is one I wish...disputes without first cutting one another's throats «•» When will human reason be sufficiently improved to see the advantage of this? When will men...

...itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. — Edmund Burke. s•» s•» Е make daily great improvements in natural, there is one I wish...disputes without first cutting one another's throats s•» When will human reason be sufficiently improved to see the advantage of this? When will men...

...disputes. While the Revolution was still on, he wrote to his friend, Richard Price, "We make daily great Improvements in Natural, there is one I wish...Disputes without first Cutting one another's Throats." 2 Again he wrote, "All Wars are Follies, very expensive, and very mischievous ones. When will Mankind...

...the very foundation of the Government. Even before the Constitution was adopted, Franklin advocated "a plan that would induce and oblige nations to settle...disputes without first cutting one another's throats;" and the first two treaties made under the Constitution expressly prescribed arbitration for the settlement...

....' We daily make great improvements in natural philosophy ; there is one I wish to see in moral — the" discovery of a plan that would induce and oblige nations to settle their disputes without first catting one another's throats." This substitute for war has began at length to gain the ear of statesmen...

...American. Away back in 1780 Benjamin Franklin said : " We make daily great improvements in Natural, but there is one I wish to see in Moral, Philosophy —...nations to settle their disputes without first cutting each other's throats." Fourteen years later the plan was discovered by John Jay, and incorporated in...