Excerpt from College Days Essays
Among all the subjects which concern the welfare of mankind on earth, there is perhaps none more grand and important than that of International Law. And while the sublimity of the field on which it operates, and the grandeur of the subjects which it assumes to control, should cause the writer to approach it with reverence and awe, its necessity to the nations of the earth should inspire him with the profoundest desire to succeed in his investigations for the discovery of truth, that he may present nothing for the approval of the world which will not serve to elevate and ennoble it. No man should presume to enter the sacred precincts of international law, as a builder or instructor, who cannot realize the virtue of the precept, "do unto others as you would have others do unto you"; who cannot lay aside national prejudices, and look with an eye of earnest impartiality, calmly to discover the mutual rights and obligations of States.
It would seem sufficient to constrain one to keep within the bounds of justice to realize that he is writing for the consideration of sovereign powers; powers which acknowledge no superior less than God; and that if he would avoid the imputation of "Pontifical insolence" he should never forget that the maxims of international law are supposed to be founded on right reason. Other weighty considerations there are which should influence the writer on this subject to observe the most strict and impartial justice.
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