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It is worth considering whether something resembling the United States code would not be found useful in the British Navy.
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Thomas Erskine Holland
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Holland suggests that a code similar to that of the United States could benefit the British Navy.
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The progress of civilisation should have the effect of alleviating as much as possible the calamities of war.
Every law presupposes an authority to superintend and direct its execution, and international conventions are supported by no such authority.
Great Britain, for one, has no desire for an acre of new territory on the American continent.
Without war the world would stagnate, and lose itself in materialism.
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