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Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot on War

1796–1832 France

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The laws of war, do they say? As if war were not the destruction of all laws.

Posthumous Manuscripts (1878)

War has been represented as necessary to prevent the too rapid increase of the population, but war mows down the flower of the young men, while it spares the men disgraced by nature. Hence it tends to the degeneration of the species.

Posthumous Manuscripts (1878)

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