* Fortunately these efforts can never attain their ultimate objects in a world bristling with arms, where healthy egotism still directs the policy of most countries. God will see to it, says Treitschke, that war always recurs as a drastic medicine for the human race. (P. 36.) * Efforts directed toward the abolition of war are not only foolish, but absolutely immoral, and must be stigmatized as unworthy of the human race. (P. 34.) * Courts of arbitration are pernicious delusions. The whole idea represents a presumptuous encroachment on natural laws of development, which can only lead to the most disastrous consequences for humanity generally. (P. 34.) * The maintenance of peace never can be or may be the goal of a policy. * Efforts for peace would, if they attained their goal, lead to general degeneration, as happens everywhere in nature where the struggle for existence is eliminated. (P. 35.) * Huge armaments are in themselves desirable. They are the most necessary precondition of our national health. (P. 11.) * The end all and be all of a State is power, and he who is not man enough to look this truth in the face should not meddle with politics, (quoted from Treitschke's "Politik"). * The State's highest moral duty is to increase its power. (P. 45-6.) * The State is justified in making conquests whenever its own advantage seems to require additional territory. (P. 46.) * Self-preservation is the State's highest ideal and justifies whatever action it may take if that action be conducive to that end. The State is the sole judge of the morality of its own action. It is, in fact, above morality, or, in other words, whatever is necessary is moral. Recognized rights (i.e., treaty rights) are never absolute rights; they are of human origin, and, therefore, imperfect and variable. There are conditions in which they do not correspond to the actual truth of things. In this case infringement of the right appears morally justified. (P. 49.) * In fact, the State is a law unto itself. Weak nations have not the same right to live as powerful and vigorous nations. (P. 34.) * Any action in favor of collective humanity outside the limits of the State and nationality is impossible. (P. 25.) * * * * * A Doctrine 2,200 Years Old. These are startling propositions, though propounded as practically axiomatic. They are not new, for twenty-two centuries ago the sophist Thrasymachus in Plato's "Republic" argued--Socrates refuting him--that justice is nothing more than the advantage of the stronger; might is right. [_Note.--Plato laid down that the end for which the State exists is justice._]