International Law

Angebote / Angebote:

Excerpt from International Law: An Introductory Lecture Delivered 17 Oct, 1888, in the University of Cambridge Such is the subject which I have been called to the responsibility of professing. Evidently it does not possess the unity of mathematics or of a natural science. It does not develop the consequences of any principles so simple and clear as time and space, or as chemical or electrical laws. But it has a unity of its own, in its reference to a great department of human action. If International Law had been regarded in the way in which I have presented it at an earlier stage in the history of our language, when what is now called political science was commonly spoken of as the art of government, the practical rather than theoretical nature of its unity would probably have caused our subject to be described as an art and not as a science. At that time however the view taken of international relations was pro foundly tinctured by notions about a law of nature, which, if they could be sustained, would make the theory of those relations a science in the strictest sense. And now, while the law of nature has retired into the background of English speculation, the name of science has come to be used so much more widely and loosely that I will venture to claim it for International Law, even in that comprehensive and popular acceptation of it which I have put forward. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.