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... 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 , De Republica , of Cicero . It has , indeed , appeared in ...
... 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 , De Republica , of Cicero . It has , indeed , appeared in ...
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... War ) , national religions , and educational auton- omy . Machiavelli , with his aspiration toward a united Italy , involving a distintegration of the Empire , opened that phase of ― the national state in Europe , which reached its ...
... War ) , national religions , and educational auton- omy . Machiavelli , with his aspiration toward a united Italy , involving a distintegration of the Empire , opened that phase of ― the national state in Europe , which reached its ...
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... War in August , 1914 , Europe and the world awoke out of a dream of intensified nationality to a new system of realities entirely an- tagonistic to the continuance of national separations . It is necessary to state very plainly the ...
... War in August , 1914 , Europe and the world awoke out of a dream of intensified nationality to a new system of realities entirely an- tagonistic to the continuance of national separations . It is necessary to state very plainly the ...
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... war and of international hostility as to give what was formerly a generous aspiration more and more of the aspect of an imperative necessity . Under the lurid illumination of the world - war , the idea of world - unification has passed ...
... war and of international hostility as to give what was formerly a generous aspiration more and more of the aspect of an imperative necessity . Under the lurid illumination of the world - war , the idea of world - unification has passed ...
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... war and the means of conducting war which must ultimately eat up human freedom and all human effort , and , as the phrase goes , destroy civilization . We shall find as we proceed that these simple oppositions do not by any means state ...
... war and the means of conducting war which must ultimately eat up human freedom and all human effort , and , as the phrase goes , destroy civilization . We shall find as we proceed that these simple oppositions do not by any means state ...
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