Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Progress of International Law and Arbitration: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before the University of Oxford in the Hall of All Souls College on October 21, 1911
I have said enough, I hope, to satisfy you, that the number of International disputes referred to arbitration has increased to a remarkable extent during the past fifty years, and that it is increasing year by year. But so far, the disputes that have been settled in this way have either turned on points of law, or have been matters of account such as the assessment of compensation and the like. The important question remains whether disputes of all kinds can be settled by arbitral procedure, and it is a question which is one of general interest to-day. The carnage and devastation of modern hostilities have increased to such a point that every civilized human being revolts from the prospect of war; and there is not one. Of us who does not desire to see arbitration take the place of resort to arms. But we have to deal with facts as they are, and there are difficulties in the way of an agreement to submit all differences to arbitration in all cases, which so far have proved insurmountable in practice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
