ABSTRACT
GROTIUS (r58J-1645~ THE work of GROTIUS on the Laws oj War and Peace (De jure belli et pacis, r625) is not strictly political, like the writings of Machiavelli, nor social, like the Utopia, nor confined to the consideration of single States within themselves, like Bodin's Republique. Holland, unlike France, was nothing without its foreign trade and international connections ; and the political philosophy of Hugo de Groot (Grotius) was appropriately devoted not to States within themselves, but to States in their relations with each other. But, in extending his view, like the Stoic philosophers, beyond the limits of the single State, Grotius drew attention to principles which bore not only on international but on civic relations, the relation of man to the State, and of man to man.
