ABSTRACT
All wars are necessarily unjust: morally, no cause can be just that injures innocent people; physically, no war can be just, as no two people are of equal strength, courage, or nerve. For a single instance, the Christian Opium-war is morally bad as to the cause, and its effects on the population; and physically bad as to the strength and courage of the people. The late retreat from Affghanistan, and murders of the British Christian-hired -assassins in India, is as much a judgment from God as any misfortune that happens can be; but the parsons and priests only call it a judgment when the misfortune happens to the opponents of the Christian Church and Government of Britain, although the rogues teach, that no event can take place without the approval of their God, and that he cannot act unjustly.
