Reflections and Comments 1865-1895

Reflections and Comments 1865-1895 is a collection of Essays and Pamphlets written by Edwin Lawrence Godkin, an Irish-born American journalist and newspaper editor. 

Excerpts:

The horrors of war are just now making a deeper impression than ever on the popular mind, owing to the close contact with the battle-field and the hospital into which the railroad and the telegraph and the newspaper have brought the public of all civilized countries. Wars are fought out now, so to speak, under every man's and woman's eyes; and, what is perhaps of nearly as much importance, the growth of commerce and manufactures, and the increased complication of the social machine, render the smallest derangement of it anywhere a concern and trouble to all nations.