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First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 487, [1]; vi, 475, [1]; original drab paper-covered boards, printed paper labels on spines; top of both spines cracked, one repaired with glue, boards a bit spotted; all else very good, clean and sound. Early ownership signature of "W. D. Crewdson, 5 mo. 5, 1829" on both front free endpapers. Dymond (1796-1828) was a British Quaker who viewed war as "an evil before which, in my estimation, slavery sinks into insignificance," and spent what there was of his short life working for peaceful causes. He died of cholera in the United States in 1828. Dymond has three works to his credit: An Inquiry into the Accordancy of War with the Principles of Christianity, and an Examination of the Philosophical Reasoning by which it is Defended: with Observations on Some of the Causes of War and Some of Its Effects (1823); Observations on the Applicability of the Pacifist Principles of the New Testament on the Conduct of States, and on the Limitations which those Principles impose on the Rights of Self-defence (1825); and the last, published posthumously, Essays on the Principles of Morality, and on the private and political rights and obligations of mankind (1829). In the March 8, 1834, issue of The Liberator, William Lloyd Garrison wrote a brief review. Garrison laments that Dymond, "was-alas! (for he is now dead) a prodigy among mankind the Lord Bacon of our times. His mind was like the sun in its glory, seldom showing the least obscuration. Its amplitude was vast, its power almost super-human, its perceptions wonderful. The field which he occupies in his essays covers the globe, and embraces the whole human race. . .".
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