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The result would be obscurum per obscurius, a remedy worse than the disease.
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Thomas Erskine Holland
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gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Holland warns that adding commentary to treaties could complicate understanding rather than clarify it.
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Objections might, of course, be made to them as unlikely to produce their hoped-for effect, or as repugnant to our feelings of humanity or honour.
Without war the world would stagnate, and lose itself in materialism.
To localise hostile pressure as far as possible, and to give to it such a character as shall restrict its incidence to the peccant State, is surely in the interest of the general good.
The only legitimate object which States should set before themselves during war is to weaken the military forces of the enemy.
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