Nature will drive them with the scourge of war with the extravagant and ever-growing burden of armaments, the weight of which must be felt in the end by every State even when at peace. She will compel them to make attempts, hailing at first and incomplete, and then, after much desolation, destruction and revolution, to do what reason could have taught them at once without so many bitter experiences, namely, to give up their lawless life of savages and enter into a league of Nations
—an organisation where every State—even the smallest, can except security and peace, not from its own power or its own decision as to what is right in its own cause,
but from this great Society of Nations where the powers of all are united in the one and the decision is given in the general will acting according to law.