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the domestic courts but in the court for the nations which will ad- 

 judicate the developing volume of international law, the court which 

 is to be the crowning institution of the judicial systems of the world. 



Harvard University, 

 April, 1916. 



IV. 

 INTERNATIONAL ADMINISTRATION. 



By PHILIP MARSHALL BROWN, A.M. 



James Lorimer, that vigorous and most stimulating Scotch 

 publicist, treating of the question of world organization, remarked 

 more than thirty years ago that : 



" The great impediment (in the way of the grow^th of international 

 jurisprudence) ... is the hopelessness caused by the debris of impossible 

 schemes which cumber our path, and from these it must be our first effort 

 to clear it." 



Among the " impossible schemes " must probably be included 

 Lorimer's own earnest attempt to solve this great problem which 

 he characterized as The Ultimate Problem of International Juris- 

 prudence. 



Starting with the assumption that international order is to be 

 secured in very much the same way as national order, he says : 



" Savages are incapable of municipal organization beyond its most rudi- 

 mentary stages; and yet it is by means of municipal organizations that men 

 cease to be savages." 



Following out the logic of his uncomplimentary analogy between 

 nations and savages Lorimer reaches the conclusion that an inter- 

 national legislature, judiciary, and executive are required to secure 

 that order and freedom among nations which he holds to be the aim 

 of international law. Candor compels him to admit that 



" progress in the direction of the ideal by means of mutual aid, regulated by 

 positive law, though possible within the state may be impossible beyond it; 

 the ultimate problem of international jurisprudence, while demonstrably 



