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the rights of small nationalities will triumph. But whatever the issue of the 
present world struggle may be, one thing is certain, that the reconstruction 
of the moral legislative system of the civilised world becomes an urgent 
necessity. And, even in the event of reaching a satisfactory agreement on 
that point, there remains to be solved the still more delicate problem : By 
what agency are its behests to be enforced ? Is the vis a tergo to be moral 
suasion or physical force ? 
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