The Three Stages In The Evolution Of The Law Of Nations (1919) - Softcover

Vollenhoven, Cornelis Van

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1104403455 ISBN 13: 9781104403454

Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2009

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If a book which is meant for contemporaries and deals with present day affairs, opens with a historical disquisition, carrying us back a couple of centuries, the reader is apt to be suspicious. What could such an introduction be, but the draped curtain of a vestibule, a dusty portiere, put up merely because it belongs there, according to an upholsterers notions? We pass by it or under it as quickly as possible and only then reach our destination. However, this mode of proceeding is to be deprecated when dealing with the law of nations. For this law boasts of a special legend concerning its birth, a legend indeed, of which the scene lies in the romantic days of the Rebellion of the Netherlands against Spain, of Elizabeth and Henry IV of Navarre, of the Pilgrim Fathers and the kings of the House of Vasa. We must clear up this perfectly incredible legend itself at the outset, to avoid constantly entering into conflict with the facts of later centuries, down to the present day. Now this is more easily said than done, for to draw a satisfactory picture of the period in which the Law of Nations was born, taxes our imagination considerably. At present France, England, Holland and even Russia and Prussia are such respectable old gentlemen that it is difficult to think of them as hobbledehoys, as young fellows.
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• Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1104403455
• ISBN 13: 9781104403454
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 108