One common imputed cause of this changed attitude toward force in the nineteenth century and the anomalous peace of that century in general is war-weariness.

The crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain.

His brother, about the same time, having been sent to newmodel the Spanish government, and to complete the conquest of the French in that quarter, signalized his arrival by the exhibition of a splendid triumph over that people.

And the righteous men, they shall iudge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their handes.