The Eastern Question And The Foreign Policy Of Great Britain A Series Of Papers From 1870 To 1878 PDF Download

Excerpt from Foreign Policy: England and the Eastern Question European States may be regarded as so many great landowners, whose mental characters are severally those peculiar to the nations of Europe, and who acknowledge no superior to restrain their caprices, nor any tribunal to judge their crimes. They have, indeed, customs; but they do not consider themselves under external laws. They make rules for their guidance; but whenever they deem it expedient, they elude those rules and customs by dexterity, or violate them by force. Yet nations have the same duties as the men of which nations are composed. The same moral law, - call it Natural law, or Divine law, but unchangeable, eternal, - is over nations as well as men, declaring their rights and forbidding wrong. All bodies politic may be regarded as individual men; and, as men are, so are they more often led by passion than guided by reason. From axioms true and maxims wise, they sometimes draw conclusions which are wild, and even grotesque. More often they wilfully invent, or carelessly accept principles which are false, in order to defend acts which are evil. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.