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guardianship beyond what any man must do
and does, when he subjects his passions to the
control of a moral purpose.
Seeing that a guaranteeing State has no right
to interfere in our internal concerns, not even
in anything we think good for our defence, we
shall always be free to keep up a military force,
large or small. But a neutralized State is
obliged to disarm the troops of other belligerent
powers that may overstep its frontiers, just as
of course, under the lawless condition which
war is and which it entails, it has, according to
its ability, to protect its boundaries with arms.
But if this duty cannot exempt Switzerland and
Belgium from proportionately large war burdens
in time of peace, this would not at all in the
same degree affect the neutralization of the
Scandinavian peninsula, since there could never
be a question of disarming troops which had
overstepped its boundaries, but only of
preventing the war-ships of a belligerent power
from entering Norwegian or Swedish seas, a
thing which, under the protection of a
guaranteed neutrality, could not take place.
Respecting the fifth objection, which declares
that the proposition is untimely, I do not
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