Excerpt from Captain Sword and Captain Pen: A Poem Elemental necessity in the nature of things (like poison itself, or hydrogen), or unavoida bleness, owing to the passions of men (which might amount to the same thing), or expedi ency in the particular instances, must either be the grounds on which war is defended, or the advocate must fairly say, at once, It is a perplexing and painful subject, and I do. Not choose to argue it. Now, unless arguments have been advanced, which I have overlooked in the perusal, this latter determination, how ever it may seem to have talked otherwise, appears to me to be the real state of the case at present with those who could surely argue better than they do, if they went to the root of the matter at all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.