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... 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 , De Republica , of Cicero . It has , indeed , appeared in , and passed out of ...
... 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 , De Republica , of Cicero . It has , indeed , appeared in , and passed out of ...
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... rules ; the combatant who does not put in all his possible energy is lost . In four brief years , therefore , Europe was compelled to develop a warfare monstrously out of proportion to any conceivable good which the completest victory ...
... rules ; the combatant who does not put in all his possible energy is lost . In four brief years , therefore , Europe was compelled to develop a warfare monstrously out of proportion to any conceivable good which the completest victory ...
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... rules . This is , we hold , a delusion . Our case is that the nations can agree far more easily to abolish war than to restrict war . It is true that , in the Great War , Germany has carried her theories of ruthlessness to self ...
... rules . This is , we hold , a delusion . Our case is that the nations can agree far more easily to abolish war than to restrict war . It is true that , in the Great War , Germany has carried her theories of ruthlessness to self ...
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... rule and limit , and say to it , ' Thus far shalt thou go and no further . ' They cannot or will not see that any conventional limitation is foreign to its very essence . It is perfectly possible and consonant with human nature that ...
... rule and limit , and say to it , ' Thus far shalt thou go and no further . ' They cannot or will not see that any conventional limitation is foreign to its very essence . It is perfectly possible and consonant with human nature that ...
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... rule want to hurt their wounded prison- ers : they rather like to pet them ; and they regard people who do otherwise as blackguards . And no doubt it is largely these emo- tional mercies and generosities which have brought about those rules ...
... rule want to hurt their wounded prison- ers : they rather like to pet them ; and they regard people who do otherwise as blackguards . And no doubt it is largely these emo- tional mercies and generosities which have brought about those rules ...
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