Excerpt from The Gradual Triumph of Law Over Brute Force, Vol. 3: A Historic Retrospect
"War," said the greatest of modern warriors, "is the trade of barbarians." But can no remedy be found for the evil? Cannot civilised and Christian nations be brought to adopt some other means of settling their differences, than this system of hideous waste and wholesale massacre? Is there anything inherently absurd in the belief, and in the practical efforts to which such belief, if it be in earnest, must give rise, that the great organised communities which now inhabit Europe may be brought to recognise the jurisdiction of a common law, and to seek adjustment for their disputes by a system of judicial reference, in lieu of their present appeal to the arbitration of brute force? We have a very strong conviction that this hope and aim, so far from being absurd, are in perfect harmony with the progressive and predominant tendencies of civilisation.
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