tailieunhanh - A Against War

Treatise on War, of which the earliest English translation is here reprinted, was among the most famous writings of the most illustrious writer of his age. Few people now read Erasmus; he has become for the world in general a somewhat vague name. Only by some effort of the historical imagination is it possible for those who are not professed scholars and students to realize the enormous force which he was at a critical period in the history of civilization. The free institutions and the material progress of the modern world have alike their roots in humanism. Humanism as a movement of the human mind. | Against War by Erasmus 1 Against War by Erasmus The Project Gutenberg EBook of Against War by Erasmus This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Against War Author Erasmus Release Date April 20 2012 EBook 39487 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AGAINST WAR Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project. THE HUMANISTS LIBRARY Edited by Lewis Einstein II ERASMUS AGAINST WAR Against War by Erasmus ERASMUS AGAINST WAR 2 Illustration WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JWMACKAIL THE MERRYMOUNT PRESS BOSTON MDCCCCVII Copyright 1907 by D. B. Updike CONTENTS Introduction ix Against War 3 INTRODUCTION The Treatise on War of which the earliest English translation is here reprinted was among the most famous writings of the most illustrious writer of his age. Few people now read Erasmus he has become for the world in general a somewhat vague name. Only by some effort of the historical imagination is it possible for those who are not professed scholars and students to realize the enormous force which he was at a critical period in the history of civilization. The free institutions and the material progress of the modern world have alike their roots in humanism. Humanism as a movement of the human mind culminated in the age and even in a sense in the person of Erasmus. Its brilliant flower was of an earlier period its fruits developed and matured later but it was in his time and in him that the fruit set The earlier sixteenth century is not so romantic as its predecessors nor so rich in solid achievement as others that have followed it. As in some orchard when spring is over the blossom lies