Excerpt from L'etat De Guerre, And, Projet De Paix Perp tuelle: Two Essays From the time of the organization of the Roman Empire, or at least from the time when this Empire came into control of the territories of the ancient civilized world, it has been the dream or ideal of poets, statesmen, and philosophers to bring about some system that should secure the peace of the world, and should bring to an end the waste of life and treasure resulting from conflicts of nations, groups, or individuals. As Rousseau says: The human species was not created simply for the purpose of bringing destruction upon itself. 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.