Thomas Erskine Holland: “It would be disastrous if shipowners and insurers were to assume, that a neutral vessel, if destined for a neutral port…”

Success can come only from the religious moral education of individuals and from the feeling of honour and sense of justice of commanders who enforce the law and conform to it so far as the exceptional circumstances of war permit.

But I go further, and think the softening of manners can alone bring about this result, which cannot be attained by a codification of the law of war.

Only compare the horrors of the Thirty Years' War with the struggles of modern times.

If in our own day a law recognised by the civilised world forbids, in a general way, the soldier to make booty in warfare on land, we have here a great advance in civilisation, and the jurists have had their share in bringing it about.