ABSTRACT
The theological view had found reasonableness pervading the universe. But even within human activity the quantitative scope of reasonableness is sharply limited. Rousseau has told us that the relation of reasonableness or of unreasonableness can exist only between the members of an organized society, between citizens of the same state. Some of those relations are such that they are, or can be, "civilized". But there are others for which the laws and customs of reasonableness have no meaning. Our search for the limits of reasonableness has brought us face to face with the international crisis in dealing with which the choice between "the appeal to reason" and the "resort to violence" cannot be evaded. Our culture has, with characteristic duplicity, found its basis for international laws, not in human reasonableness, but in the mind and will of God. Nations are eternally at war. They have nothing to do with reasonableness. Government is human reasonableness in action.
