...even barbarous nations would have been ashamed, recourse being had to arms for slight reasons or for no reason; and when arms were once taken up, all reverence for divine and human law was lost, just as if men were henceforth authorized to commit all crimes without restraint. 39. ... It...

...welter of the Thirty Years' War, and in the Prolegomena you will remember the oft-quoted passage : — " I saw prevailing throughout the Christian world a license in making war of which ever barbarous nations would have been ashamed; recourse being had to arms for slight reasons or no...

...the Prolegomena to his great work, — " I saw prevailing throughout the Christian world a licence in making war of which even barbarous nations would...recourse being had to arms for slight reasons or no reasons; and when arms were once taken up, all reverence tor divine and human law was thrown away,...

...when a Grotius could have need to write, "I saw prevailing throughout the Christian world a licence in making war of which even barbarous nations would...recourse being had to arms for slight reasons or no reasons; and when arms were once taken up, all reverence for divine and human law was thrown away,...

...inculcating the principles of public right: 177 "I saw prevailing throughout the Christian world a licence in making war of which even barbarous nations would...been ashamed, recourse being had to arms for slight reason or no reason; and, when arms were once taken up, all reverence for divine and human law was...

...war, of which even barbarians would have been ashamed; recourse being had to arms for slight reason or no reason, and when arms were once taken up, all reverence for divine and human laws was thrown away, just as if men were thenceforth authorized to commit all crane without restraint....

...Grotius, the father of modern international law, published his great work, because, to use his own words: "I saw prevailing throughout the Christian world a...been ashamed, recourse being had to arms for slight reason, or no reason, and when arms were once taken up, all reverence for divine and human law was...

...years ago during the Thirty Years War, when, as he said, he "saw prevailing throughout the Christain world a license in making war of which even barbarous nations would have been ashamed." De Jure Belli, § 28. And he further said: "It would be useful, and, indeed, it is almost necessary,...

...which even barbarous nations would have been ashamed, recourse being had to arms for slight reasons and no reason; and when arms were once taken up all reverence for human and divine law was thrown away, just as if men were henceforth authorised to commit all crimes...

...Thirty Years' War and wrote his truly epoch-making treatise to lessen the horrors of that conflict. " I saw prevailing throughout the Christian world a...barbarous nations would have been ashamed. Recourse was had to arms for slight reasons or no reason ; and when arms were once taken up, all reverence for...