The League of Nations

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Excerpt from The League of Nations: An Historical Argument, The Conditions of the Problem the League of Nations on Paper the Lesson of History We may account for it as we like. We may point out that the modern dogma of the sovereignty of the national State implies an anarchy among them which necessitates occasional if not frequent recourse to the barbarous arbitrament of war. We may explain that the proprietary notion of the State gave its proprietor an irresistible inducement to extend his property whenever he discerned the opportunity, or that economic necessity forces modern democracies into the dilemma of war or starvation. We may say that an increasing divergence of national character and aspirations imposes war upon nations as a struggle for the survival of the fittest, or that the survival of backward peoples with their cult of the duel relegates to a distant future the settlement of disputes involving their honour or vital interests by any other means than the sword and poison-gas. But unless we can show that the tendency of history, in spite of appearances and of: many of its professors, is to eliminate or diminish all these causes of conflict, we shall have no sure foundation for the projects of publicists or the treaties of statesmen and lawyers. The way to hell is not more lavishly paved with good intentions than the path of history is strewn with broken treaties and with scraps of paper. 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.