Excerpt from International Law and Autocracy: A Public Lecture Delivered Before the University of Pennsylvania There is not at the present time any broad question of jurisprudence which puzzled man would rather solve than the question as to whether there is, or there is not, a good prospect for the developement of international law and a good prospect of seeing grow up before our eyes a state of society based upon it, in which it shall reign supreme. 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.