The Necessity of a Permanent Tribunal (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Nys, Ernest

9780366362981: The Necessity of a Permanent Tribunal (Classic Reprint)

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There is in Latin literature an admirable fragment, which played its part in the Middle Ages, and which has exercised a constant and beneficial inﬂuence upon the thoughtful. It is the dream of Publius Aemilianus Scipio, the younger. In it Marcus Tullius Cicero shows in highly poetical terms the majestic mission of law and politics, and the important role in the development of humanity played by the groups and communities - the ancient citystates - formed under the inﬂuence of laws. He was inspired by the theories of Plato and Aristotle, but was not satisfied merely to translate and copy. To Greek ideas he added the lessons taught by experience. He recalled the illustrious past of Rome; he showed \him self conscious of the glory which she was de'stined to acquire in future through her con quest of the world.

A Roman could not, however, form an idea of all the progress that humanity was destined to make in the domain of political organiza tion. He grasped the idea of the vast single political community, but beyond that republic or that empire which should unite under its laws so many peoples and so many countries, he did not, he could not admit the peaceful existence of other republics, kingdoms and empires having in the eye of the law a situa tion like that of Rome. It was impossible for him to rise to the concept of a family of nations, of a society of states, developing freely and at the same time fulfilling the obli gations due to equals in their relations withother nations. The Roman peace, pax romana, extended its reign only over those peoples who recognized the supremacy of the Eternal City. It stopped at the-frontiers; beyond them per petual war was waged against those who were disdainfully called Barbarians.

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