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dependent in this way upon foreign countries, a third
in Belgium, and in England probably not far
from a third.
So long as there is peace, this increasing
community of interests is a source of
wellbeing, and advances civilization; but if a war
breaks out, that which was a blessing is turned
into a common ill. For, not to mention the
burden which preparations for defence impose
upon the neutral nations, they suffer from the
crisis which war causes in the money market,
and from the cessation or curtailing of their
trade with the belligerent powers.
From these facts, de Molinari deduces a
principle of justice—Neutral States have
the right to forbid a war, as it greatly
injures their own lawful interests.
If two duellists fight out their quarrel in a
solitary place, where nobody can be injured by
their balls or swords, they may be allowed
without any great harm to exercise their right
of killing. But if they set to work to shoot
one another in a crowded street, no one can
blame the police if they interfere, since their
action exposes peacable passers-by to danger.
It is the same with war between States.
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