Two years before the United States went to war with Mexico in 1846, one could read in the Family Christian Almanack an article, “Expenses of War,” in which the author added together the costs of America’s wars from 1776 to 1815. He observed that it would have been better to spend the money “to furnish every family in the world with a Bible: to provide the means of common education for all its ...
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