Chapter 8

Moral compromise a necessity in life.--Statement of Newman 88 Impossibility of acting on it 88 Moral considerations though the highest must not absorb all others 90 Truthfulness--cases in which it may be departed from 91

_Moral compromise in war_ War necessarily stimulates the malevolent passions and practises deception 92 Rights of war in early stages of civilisation 93 Distinction between Greeks and Barbarians 94 Roman moralists insisted on just causes of war and on formal declaration 95 Treatment of prisoners.--Combatants and non-combatants 95 Treatment of private property 96 Lawful and unlawful methods of conducting war 96 Abdication by the soldier of private judgment and free will 98 Distinctions and compromises 99 Cases in which the military oath may be broken.--Illegal orders 100 Violation of religious obligations.--The Sepoy mutiny 101 The Italian conscript.--Fenians in the British army 104