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Of the truth that indeed this swearing off of war must be the starting-point and test of the Third Law of Nations and of a League of Nations, few things can so completely convince us as a bird’s-eye view of Grotius’s volume of 1625 as a whole. Although it has seemed so far that Grotius’s Doctrine of the Duties of States was only applicable to the present and the future, yet an important part of it — about which we have been silent — refers to conditions which, even then, were things of the past. Just because Grotius combines two parts to form one sober, severe structure, it may be rendered so easily.
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© 1919 Martinus Nijhoff the Hague
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van Vollenhoven, C. (1919). The Third Law of Nations. In: The Three Stages in the Evolution of the Law of Nations. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9554-6_7
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