Excerpt from Hero of Macedon: Or History of Alexander the Great, Viewed in the Light of the Gospel

I was forcibly struck, by the remark of an eminent minister of the gospel, in Philadelphia, after a lecture on Peace, delivered in his church, that all history should be rewritten. If we look into history, particularly ancient history, we shall find it to be but the annals of war and bloodshed, ruin and desolation. War was not only the pastime, but the serious business and occupation, of almost the whole race of mankind, particularly of that portion, which we have been in the habit of calling civilized, in distinction to that which is called barbarian. This is civilization without the Gospel, and it is just such a civilization as we should expect to find in heathens.

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