Excerpt from International Relations: Address Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard University, June 29, 1889 I shall have the honour to ask your attention this morning, without preface or exordium, to some thoughts upon the subject of international relations. What I have to say must be both general and discursive, but I h0pe may not be found altogether without the interest that arises from practical application. The branch of jurisprudence upon which the rights and inter course that exist between civilized nations ...
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Excerpt from International Relations: Address Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard University, June 29, 1889 I shall have the honour to ask your attention this morning, without preface or exordium, to some thoughts upon the subject of international relations. What I have to say must be both general and discursive, but I h0pe may not be found altogether without the interest that arises from practical application. The branch of jurisprudence upon which the rights and inter course that exist between civilized nations are based, has been com mouly called international law. I do not think a less accurate phrase has often gained acceptance among instructed minds. In this subject, as in so many others, inexact language is both the cause and the result of inexact ideas. The word law, employed in any juridical sense, implies two indispensable elements - a supreme authority by which its obligation is prescribed, and a paramount force by which obedience is exacted. A system of proposed human conduct that lacks either of these conditions may be just and desira ble, but it cannot reach the dignity of law. It may appeal, as the precepts of morality do, to conscience, to reason and to policy, but it must remain only persuasive in its requirements, and voluntary in its obligation. Such are the rules that regulate the intercourse of nations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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