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Nations, should become binding, and acquire all the force 

 of a specific Treaty upon each and every point. * * * * 

 It would be a real benefit to the interests of Nations were 

 the principle of International Law reduced into the form of 

 a Code, as it would have the effect of stamping with 

 greater authority the dictates of the Law of Nations, by 

 bestowing on them a fuller and more specific concurrence. 

 It must, however, be admitted that it would still remain 

 defective, for want of an enforcing power such as is 

 awarded to Municipal Law." — (" The Law of Nature and 

 Nations, 1855.") 



T. J. LAWRENCE, M.A., LL.M., 

 DEPUTY WHEWELL, PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, CAMBRIDGE. 



' We have not yet arrived at a formal European Areopagus. 

 All we have at present is a very real superiority before 

 the law on the part of the Great Powers. Whether that 

 superiority will develop into a properly organized Court of 

 Appeal, with sufficient wisdom and justice to decide inter- 

 national controversies aright, and sufficient power to enforce 

 its decisions, time only can decide. It is certain that 

 such a Court will never be created all in a moment, in 

 accordance with the provisions of some cut and dried 

 scheme. If it ever exists at all, it will come into being 

 slowly. The circumstances of each age will help to shape 

 and form it according to current needs. It will be gradually 

 developed from the germ at present existing." — ("Essays on 

 Modern International Law, 1884.") 



FREDERICK SEEBOHM, LL.D. 

 " It is submitted that the second great branch of International 

 Reform must be the establishment, not necessarily of any 

 fixed judicial tribunal, but of some kind of really judicial 

 international machinery for interpreting international law, for 

 giving such an impartial and authoritative decision of what 

 is the law as it should be no stain upon a nation's honour 

 either to sue for or obey. * * * * What is required is, 

 an authoritative judgment which shall settle the disputed 

 forms of law for all time, and for all nations over whom the 

 law has no force ; not merely a clumsy expedient whereby the 



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