on the oute draw the Poly of mere indifferent Protection Polity, as we have already evils, which are, in most cases, blished Church. le 1047 By the views which we have a and the preceding Chapter, we are the Polity of an Established Church, t between the System of an equal Protection satisfy 2 and falsehood, which can never the System of Spiritual Domination, which is no nie national tranquillity and freedom, is the position the course of history have happily led to it, national Inational morality, and national progress may most, posse be hoped for. BOOK VI. INTERNATIONAL JUS. RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS BETWEEN CHAPTER I. INTERNATIONAL LAW. 1018 WE have already spoken of States as Moral Agents, and have treated of their Rights, their Obligations, and their Duties. We have hitherto spoken of these, only so far as they belong to the relation between each State and its own members. But States have also relations towards each other. States are Nations, acting through an organized Government; and Nations, as well as Individuals, may commit acts of violence, make agreements of mutual advantage, possess property with its appendages, and the like. In such actions, there must be a difference of right and wrong: Morality must apply to the dealings of Nations with each other; and before quitting the subject, we shall treat briefly of that branch of Morality. 1049 In the Morality of Nations, as of individuals, Duties must depend upon Rights and Obligations; and Rights and Obligations cannot exist without being defined. The Rights and Obligations of individuals are defined by actually existing Laws: they have their form and limits, in each State, given them by the National Law; but their general conditions are the subject of an especial branch of Morality which we have |