Excerpt from Manual of International Law, for the Use of Navies, Colonies and Consulates, Vol. 2 of 2: In Six Parts Bound in Two Volumes Mutual duties or states. Of the highest standard existing between the con tracting parties, in other words, the agreement must be based on the standard of national mo rality and civilization of the party most advanced in morality and civilization, for those who have attained to the higher moral standard cannot under any consideration stoop to the lower one without polluting their moral conscience and retreating on the road to civilization (comp. 11 These principles determine the Inu tual duties of States. 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.