Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them …

Martin Luther
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Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief.
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