Eternal Peace: And Other International EssaysWorld peace foundation, 1914 - 179 páginas This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... / "eternal peace" These words were once put by a Dutch innkeeper on his sign board as a satirical inscription over the representation of a churchyard. We need not inquire whether they hold of men in general or particularly of the rulers of States who seem never to be satiated of war or even only of the philosophers who dream that sweet dream of Peace. The author of the present sketch, however, would make one remark by way of reservation in reference to it. It is well known that the practical politician looks down, with great self-complacency, on the theoretical politician when he comes in the way, as a mere pedant whose empty ideas can bring no danger to the State, prooeeding, as it does, upon principles derived from experience; and the theorizer may, therefore, be allowed to throw down his eleven skittle-pins at once, while the sagacious statesman who knows the world need not, on that account, even give himself a turn! This being so, should any matter of controversy arise between them, the practical statesman must so far proceed consistently and not scent out a danger for the State behind the opinions of the theoretical thinker, which he has ventured in a good intent publicly to express--by which "saving clause," the author will consider himself expressly safeguarded against all malicious interpretation. first section which contains the preliminary articles of an eternal. peace between states (1. "No conclusion of peace shall be held to be valid as such when it has been made with the secret reservation of the material for a future war.") For, in that case, it would be a mere truce. |
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Página 177 - Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you ; even as the green herb have I given you all things. But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
Página 177 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require ; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man ; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God made he man.
Página 7 - Nature has willed that man should produce entirely by his own initiative everything which goes beyond the mechanical ordering of his animal existence, and that he should not partake of any other happiness or perfection than that which he has procured for himself without instinct and by his own reason.
Página 5 - Thus did she bring forth a Kepler who, in an unexpected way, reduced the eccentric paths of the planets to definite laws; and then she brought forth a Newton, who explained those laws by a universal natural cause. First Proposition: All the capacities implanted in a creature by nature, are destined to unfold themselves, completely and conformably to their end, in the course of time.
Página x - The history of the human race, viewed as a whole, may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution internally and, for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed.
Página 79 - Despotism is in principle the irresponsible executive administration of the State by laws laid down and enacted by the same power that administers them; and consequently the Ruler so far exercises his own private will as if it were the public Will. Of the three forms of the State, a Democracy, in the proper sense of the word, is necessarily a despotism; because it establishes an Executive power in which All resolve about, and, it may be.
Página 173 - For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administered is best : For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Página 38 - Now anyone who has the right of voting in this system of legislation, is a citizen as distinguished from a burgess; he is a citoyen as distinguished from a bourgeois. The quality requisite for this status, in addition to the natural one of not being a child or a woman,— is solely this, that the individual is his own master by right (sui juris); and, consequently, that he has some property that supports him,— under which may be reckoned any art or handicraft, or any fine art or science. Otherwise...
Página 74 - No State at war with another shall adopt such modes of hostility as would necessarily render mutual confidence impossible in a future peace ; such as the employment of assassins (percussores) or poisoners (venefici), the violation of a capitulation, the instigation of treason and such like.
Página 137 - These are : (1) constitutional freedom, as the right of every citizen to have to obey no other law than that to which he has given his consent or approval...