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elsewhere in his treatise speaks of congresses,
he does not mean thereby the meetings of
diplomatists to which that name now applies.
Congresses ought, he says, to be actual
international organs, whose object is not to
serve the fluctuating and conflicting interests
of policy, but the strict principles of justice.
They must be permanent institutions, and
being so, help on international reforms, such as
a gradual disarmament and a codification of
international law; that is, a correct digest of
the various regulations and principles of
international law, forming a common law for all
civilized nations.
In the last named direction there is in the
field already The Association for the Reform
and Codification of International Law,
founded at Brussels, Oct. 10th, 1873, and in an
important degree consisting of the most eminent
jurists of the nations. This association, which
meets annually for the discussion of
international law in various parts of Europe, deals
also with the scholarly inquiry into the
continually growing material, springing from the
many international congresses, which so often
now, with various objects, meet first in one part
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