ABSTRACT
International Law is a subject which is always of immediate practical importance. It is easy to distinguish International Law from Positive Law or Law as it prevails in any particular state. Positive Law consists of rules of conduct binding upon the citizens of a state and enforced by the supreme authority therein. The civil law of Rome consists entirely of law adapted to the requirements of a settled community of individuals—a community which has reached a stable form. The theory of the Law of Nature has usually been more or less associated with conceptions which are not essentially connected with the moral sense of mankind. The conception of a universally obligatory Law, the dictates of which are assumed to be the appropriate objects of the apprehension of the conscience, is the logical complement of the conception of a moral sense.
