ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to establishe the principles on which the organization of Europe should rest. It shows how existing circumstances make it possible for a start to be made in carrying out this plan. None of the members of the congress will have the function of considering questions from a general point of view; none of them will be even authorized to do so. To seek peace in Europe by means of treaties and congresses is to seek the maintenance of a society by conventions and agreements. Only good laws would be made, for none would be passed or put into force until the agreement of the some authorities had proved that it was for the good of the people as well as for individuals: or in other words, no measure would be passed until it had demonstrated to be good and wise by the most rigorous logical methods.
