These and similar arguments are constantly adduced against the idea of a perpetual peace.
But once called into being, the idea of a perpetual peace and of a European confederation did not die.
And if a few savage peoples live in perpetual peace, it seems that the chief reason for this is not a higher standard of morality, but the absence of all inducements to war.
Theorists and fanatics imagine that they see in the efforts of President Taft a great step forward on the path to perpetual peace, and enthusiastically agree with him.
Treitschke tells us, "the weary, spiritless, and exhausted ages which have played with the dream of perpetual peace.
In 1795 he published Zum ewigen Frieden, an outline for a league of perpetual peace.
He was not the first to plan a definite scheme for establishing a perpetual peace.
He published a philosophical essay on Perpetual Peace, in which he formulated the articles of an international treaty to secure the disappearance of war.
The friends of Mars, who cannot bear the prospect of perpetual peace, maintain that war is an indispensable instrument of Progress.
Saint-Pierre's idea of perpetual peace inspired an early essay on the scourge of war.
Mill's views on the probability of perpetual peace on earth are altogether too rosy: Principles III, ch.
It happens frequently that at the close of the period of peace, intelligent and noble but unhistorical and therefore short-sighted minds begin to dream of perpetual peace.
The first requisite of perpetual peace is that the nations of the world experience a change of heart and spirit--should repent.
These characteristics are manifest in the essay on Perpetual Peace.
After the country had sufficiently recovered, he compelled the Duke of Riazan to conclude "a perpetual peace," and Novgorod paid an indemnity besides agreeing to an annual tribute.
War broke out, but neither gained any important advantage, and in 1509 a perpetual peace was concluded wherein Vassili renounced all claims upon Kief and Smolensk.
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