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Only compare the horrors of the Thirty Years' War with the struggles of modern times.
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Thomas Erskine Holland
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Holland invites comparison between the brutal Thirty Years' War and modern conflicts to highlight changes in warfare.
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We see a general legal persuasion ever in process of more and more distinct formation uniting all civilised peoples.
We know also that war, which moves nations so deeply, rouses to exceptional activity the good qualities as well as the evil instincts of human nature.
The general recognition of these principles, and of those also which relate to prisoners, would mark a distinct step of progress towards the goal pursued with so honourable a persistency by the Institut de Droit International.
Men of nations readily disunited and opposed--Germans and French, English and Russians, Spaniards and Dutchmen, Italians and Austrians--are, as a rule, all of one mind as to the principles of international law.
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