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Excerpt from A Record of International Arbitration: Four Articles Reprinted From Broad Views; January, February, April and May, 1904
The Hague Conference of 1899, which resulted in the creation of a Central Bureau of Arbitration, and the arbitration treaties concluded recently by England with the United States, on the one side, and with France, on the other - treaties which, there is reason to believe, are but the forerunners of similar agreements between all the civilised states - mark an epoch in international relations. It is, therefore, a matter both of historical interest and of practical advantage to inquire into the origin and gradual development of this mode of settling differences between nations, to ascertain whether it was Known to the old world as a means Of avoiding war, and to what extent it was resorted to in practice. Retrospects of this kind have more than once confirmed the saying that there is nothing new under the sun,1 and that antiquity furnishes, not only precedents, but the very foundations of institutions and practices commonly believed to be the outcome of modern civilisation.2 J udicious discrimination must, no doubt, preside over the manner in which such inquiries are conducted. The critical faculty should never be misled by similarities only apparent, or by mere coincidences. Facts should not be contorted or ignored in an effort to prop up theories that are untenable, but the Speculative character of a mere hypothesis should be frankly avowed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
