All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still remains.


Emerson's Complete Works: Miscellanies (ed. 1888)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still...

All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still...

All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still...

All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still...