ABSTRACT
First the nations must submit to law and right in the settlement of their disputes. Secondly, they must reserve force for the coercion of the law-breaker that implies they should construct rules to determine who the law-breaker is. Let the law-breaker defined as the one who appeals to force, instead of appealing to law and right by machinery duly provides for that purpose and the aggressor is immediately under the ban of the civilized world and met by an overwhelming force to coerce him into order. In constructing machinery of this kind there is no intellectual difficulty greater than that which confronts every attempt everywhere to substitute order for force. The difficulty is moral and lies in the habits, passions, and wills of people. But it should never conclude that, if such a moral change operates, there would be no need for the machinery. The author agrees that the European anarchy is the real cause of European wars.
