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... human affairs , to the extent at least of a cessation of war and a world - wide rule of international law , is no new idea ; it can be traced through many centuries of history . It is found as an acceptable commonplace in a fragment ...
... human affairs , to the extent at least of a cessation of war and a world - wide rule of international law , is no new idea ; it can be traced through many centuries of history . It is found as an acceptable commonplace in a fragment ...
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... human affairs from a dispersed to a uni- fied condition . Rather , it tells a story of the oscillating action of separatist and unifying forces . And the process of civilization itself , if we use the word in its narrower and older ...
... human affairs from a dispersed to a uni- fied condition . Rather , it tells a story of the oscillating action of separatist and unifying forces . And the process of civilization itself , if we use the word in its narrower and older ...
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... human affairs as has never hitherto been conceivable , and that , on the other , they so enlarge and intensify the scope and evil of war and of international hostility as to give what was formerly a generous aspiration more and more of ...
... human affairs as has never hitherto been conceivable , and that , on the other , they so enlarge and intensify the scope and evil of war and of international hostility as to give what was formerly a generous aspiration more and more of ...
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... human affairs . The case , as it is com- monly stated in the propaganda literature for a League of Na- tions , is a choice between , on the one hand , a general agreement on the part of mankind to organize a permanent peace , and , on ...
... human affairs . The case , as it is com- monly stated in the propaganda literature for a League of Na- tions , is a choice between , on the one hand , a general agreement on the part of mankind to organize a permanent peace , and , on ...
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... human affairs can release the nations from the manifest necessity of cul- tivating the tank , multiplying the tank , and maintaining a great manufacture and store of tanks , over and above all the other belligerent plants that they had ...
... human affairs can release the nations from the manifest necessity of cul- tivating the tank , multiplying the tank , and maintaining a great manufacture and store of tanks , over and above all the other belligerent plants that they had ...
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