What John Ruskin thinks about war

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English art critic and social thinker (1819 to 1900); author of Unto This Last.

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1. c. 1860–1862

   Our readingA soldier's essential trade is not slaying but being slain

   Their wordsFor the soldier's trade, verily and essentially, is not slaying, but being slain.

   ↗Unto This Last (1860-1862)gutenberg.org All 21 from this book