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in a not inconsiderable degree it would
contribute to the preservation of peace, and gradually
help to lessen the military burdens of all lands;
consequently, and in the first place, of our own.
Treaties, it is said, are broken as easily as
they are made. Even if it be true that this has
occurred, it does not necessarily follow that it
must continue to occur. New factors may come
in making it more difficult to break
engagements that have been entered into.
Experience shows that righteous laws have
been transgressed, but no one would aver that
they are therefore unnecessary. As the moral
power of the law makes it possible to diminish
the police force, so also treaties of neutrality
make it possible to diminish the military
forces.
Besides, our opponents ought to bring
forward evidence that the rights of States at
present neutralized have been violated. That
they have been threatened is true, and it would
have been a wonder if this had not happened
under the lawless condition which has obtained
among nations.
The idea of neutrality has, nevertheless, as I
have tried to show by many examples, little by
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