532nd OKDIISrAKY GENERAL MEETING. 



MONDAY, MAY 6th, 1912, 4.30 p.m. 



T. G. Pinches, Esq., LL.D., in the Chaie. 



The Minutes of the preceding Meeting were read and signed. 



The Chairman introduced Mr. Marcus N. Tod, M.A., Lecturer in 

 Greek Epigraphy in Oxford University, and invited him to read his 

 paper. 



INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION IN THE GREEK 

 WORLD. By Marcus N. Tod, Esq., M.A., Fellow of 

 Oriel College, Oxford, and University Lecturer in Greek 

 Epigraphy. 



HEN I was honoured with an invitation to address a 



T T meeting of the Victoria Institute, I felt that, not being 

 qualified to speak upon any question of philosophy or natural 

 science, I could not do better than ask your consideration of a 

 .subject which for some little time has claimed my special 

 interest and attention, namely, the part played by arbitration 

 in the settlement of disputes between state and state in the 

 ancient Greek world. In spite of the difference, of which we 

 are constantly reminded, between the Greek city-state and the 

 nation- state of the modern world, I shall retain the phrase 

 international arbitration," as more familiar than " interstatal 

 arbitration," and as unlikely to lead to any misapprehension. 

 I am emboldened to bring this subject before your notice, not 

 only by the ever-increasing interest taken at the present day 

 in the question of the settlement of national differences by 

 peaceful and equitable means, not only by the growing 

 conviction amono^st thoughtful men that war, where it is not a 

 necessity, is a crime, not only by the burden of huge armaments 

 which presses more and more heavily each year upon many 

 nations and by the greater destructiveness of modern weapons 

 and appliances of war, but also by the fear that the facts of 



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