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Neutral States would have small interest in
hindering war, if war did not do them any particular
harm; and under those circumstances their right
to interfere might be disputed. But when, as
is now the case, war cannot be carried on
without menacing a great and constantly increasing
portion of the interests of neutrals, yes, even
their existence, their right to come in and
maintain order is indisputable.
The worst is that, after all, the belligerent
nation itself never decides its own fate. That
is settled by a few politicians and military men,
who have quite other interests than those of
business. It is often done by a single man;
and it may be said without exaggeration, that
the world’s peace depends upon the pleasure
of three or four men, sovereigns or ministers,
who can any day, at their discretion, let slip all
the horrors of war. They can thereby bring
measureless misery and ills upon the whole
civilized world’s peaceable industries, not
excepting even those of neutral nations, with whom
they have nothing to do. The most absolute
despots of the rude old times had no such power.
Self-interests of purely political nature give
the neutral States, especially the smaller ones,
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