Perpetual Peace a Philosophical Essay 1795
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We have peace at this moment, but at a daily increasing cost. The Peace Society is rightly concerned in pressing this point. It is not enough to keep off actual war : there is a limit to the price we can afford to pay even for peace. Probably no principle has cost Europe so much in the last century as that handed down from Rome: "Si vis pacem, pare bellum. " It is now a hundred and fifty years since Montesquieu* protested * Esprit des Lns, XIII. Chap. 17. "A new distemper has spread itself over... Europe: it lias infected our princes, and induces them to keep up an exorbitant number of troops. It has its redoublings, and of necessity becomes contagious. For as soon as one prince augments what he calls his troops, the rest of course do the same: so th. It nothing is gained thereby but the public Translator's Introduction 89 against this "new distemper" which was spreading itself over Europe ; but never, in time of peace, has complaint been so loud or so general as now : and this, not only against the universal burden of taxation which weighs upon all nations alike, but, in continental countries, against the waste of pro- ductive force due to compulsory military service, a discontent which seems to strike at the very foundations of society.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
We have peace at this moment, but at a daily increasing cost. The Peace Society is rightly concerned in pressing this point. It is not enough to keep off actual war : there is a limit to the price we can afford to pay even for peace. Probably no principle has cost Europe so much in the last century as that handed down from Rome: "Si vis pacem, pare bellum. " It is now a hundred and fifty years since Montesquieu* protested * Esprit des Lns, XIII. Chap. 17. "A new distemper has spread itself over... Europe: it lias infected our princes, and induces them to keep up an exorbitant number of troops. It has its redoublings, and of necessity becomes contagious. For as soon as one prince augments what he calls his troops, the rest of course do the same: so th. It nothing is gained thereby but the public Translator's Introduction 89 against this "new distemper" which was spreading itself over Europe ; but never, in time of peace, has complaint been so loud or so general as now : and this, not only against the universal burden of taxation which weighs upon all nations alike, but, in continental countries, against the waste of pro- ductive force due to compulsory military service, a discontent which seems to strike at the very foundations of society.
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