The Society of Free States (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Society of Free States

And here I think that I may make an end; not that I have said all that might be said, but that enough has been said to lay the founda tions; on which, if any one will erect a fairer superstructure, he will be so far from being the object of any grudging on my part, that I shall be grateful to him. Only before I dismiss the reader, as when I spoke of undertaking a war, I added admonitions on the duty of avoiding war as much as possible, so now I will add a few admonition: which may tend in war, and after war, to the preservation of good faith and peace; and of good faith, both on other accounts, and that the hope of peace may not be destroyed. For not only is each commonwealth kept together by good faith, Cicero says, but that greater society of which nations are the members. If faith be taken away, as Aristotle says, the intercourse OF men IS abolished.

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