ABSTRACT
One should note that social life surrounds us with a multitude of things which derive more from our imaginings than our needs and to which we are naturally indifferent. So much so that for the most part the issues in war become even more alien than in the state of nature and eventually reach the point where individuals care very little about what goes on during a public war. Only those peoples soundly established over a long period of time can imagine making war a distinct profession and a special class out of those who practise it. Among a new people where the common interest is still lively all citizens are soldiers in wartime and in peacetime there are no soldiers at all. The right of slavery to which prisoners of war are subject is limitless.
