ABSTRACT
This chapter is intended to collect together observations on a number of “movements” of which scant mention or no mention at all, has proved possible in the text though they were fated to become highly important. It is mainly concerned with the propagation of unfamiliar if benevolent new ideas on behalf of the unfortunate should not be closed without mention of three personalities already, by 1785, active in that field and typical of much that was to come. One more significant example of that hatred of unnecessary cruelty and suffering, which was inspiring the humanitarians and innovators, should be given in relation to warfare before the same spirit is at work in Britain. Distinctions were set up between the French position in Grenada and the British in St. Eustatia; everything that had been done was justified from the laws of war except the harsh treatment of the Jews, undertaken, it was explained, without the Commanders’ orders and already being rectified.
