Or, if you treat it as booty, in which last case, I suppose, by the law of nations ordinary property does change, no civilized nation in modern times applies that principle to the property of libraries and institutions of learning.
Hoar argues against treating cultural property as war booty, emphasizing the importance of libraries and institutions.
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