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am not a Russian, indeed”; they say in Russia,
“You behave yourself like a Swede.” It
needs an independent third party to give an
impartial judgment. Right must be right.
If our so-called enemy is really in the right,
he does not become wrong because he is called
our enemy; and if we conquer and kill him, we
only thereby increase a hundredfold our terrible
guilt. It is in the long run a loss to both sides.
Here, at any rate at least, a compromise is
needed, for it is seldom the fault of one when
two quarrel.
But the endeavour to get a permanent
arbitration tribunal established cannot, in any way,
be reasonably opposed to efforts for the welfare
of one’s own country. The very
consciousness of the existence of such a tribunal would
little by little, as a matter of course, bring about
the reign of law. It would indeed be a
marvellous perversion of ideas which esteemed it
dishonourable to feel bound, in case of disputes
with other countries, to appeal to law and
justice; inasmuch as this very unwillingness to
seek the path of justice must excite a serious
suspicion as to the cause you maintain.
To lay hold on the sword under the influence
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