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The war system of the commonwealth of nations; an address before the American Peace Society, at its anniversary in Boston, May 28, 1849 - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ...as little adapted to establish right, and which must regard this final development of the Law of Nations as a consummation worthy of every effort. To this all persons, and particularly the rulers of states, should bend their energies. A special league or treaty should be entered into, which may truly be called a Treaty of Peace, differing from other treaties a this regard, that, whereas these terminate a single existing War only, this should seek to terminate forever all War between the parties to it. Treaties of Peace, tacitly acknowledging the right to wage war, as all treaties now do, are nothing more than a truce; they are not Peace. By these treaties an individual war may be ended; but not the state of war. There may not be constant hostilities; but there will be constant fear of them, with constant threats of aggression and attack. The soldiers and armaments now nursed by civilized states, as a Peace establishment, become the fruitful parent of new wars. With real Peace, these would be abandoned. Nor should states hesitate to submit, like individuals, to law. They should form one comprehensive Federation of Nations, which, by the addition of other nations, should at last embrace the whole earth. And this, according to Kant, in the succession of years, by a sure progress, is the irresistible tendency of nations. These views found immediate support from another German philosopher, Fichte, of remarkable acuteness and perfect devotion to truth, whose name, in his own day, awakened an echo inferior only to that of Kant. In his Groundwork of the Law of Nature (Grundlage des Naturrechts,) published in 1796, he urges a Federation of Nations, with a tribunal for the determination of international controversies, as the best way of securing the...
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