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... conception of more or less absolute princes , with highly organized standing armies ( see his Art of War ) , national religions , and educational auton- omy . Machiavelli , with his aspiration toward a united Italy , involving a ...
... conception of more or less absolute princes , with highly organized standing armies ( see his Art of War ) , national religions , and educational auton- omy . Machiavelli , with his aspiration toward a united Italy , involving a ...
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... conception of life , with the acutest , most illuminating simplicity . But other such collapses may not have this effect of simplifying and enforcing the issue . They may mere- ly encourage powers adjacent to the region of collapse , to ...
... conception of life , with the acutest , most illuminating simplicity . But other such collapses may not have this effect of simplifying and enforcing the issue . They may mere- ly encourage powers adjacent to the region of collapse , to ...
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... conceive them , in their disputes , abiding by the awards of impartial reason , it is a hun- dred times more difficult to conceive them accepting the wholly unreasonable awards of artificially and arbitrarily restricted violence . These ...
... conceive them , in their disputes , abiding by the awards of impartial reason , it is a hun- dred times more difficult to conceive them accepting the wholly unreasonable awards of artificially and arbitrarily restricted violence . These ...
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... conception of life without war is a conception , therefore , not simply utopian , but millennial . It is a proposal that every kind and sort and type of humanity should expand and increase without limit in a small world of restricted ...
... conception of life without war is a conception , therefore , not simply utopian , but millennial . It is a proposal that every kind and sort and type of humanity should expand and increase without limit in a small world of restricted ...
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... conceptions clearly stated in Machiavelli's Prince and in his Art of War , — and we may hope it draws near to the end of its influence . But the fixity of their minds upon this old and almost entirely European idea of international ...
... conceptions clearly stated in Machiavelli's Prince and in his Art of War , — and we may hope it draws near to the end of its influence . But the fixity of their minds upon this old and almost entirely European idea of international ...
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