Excerpt from The Two Hague Conferences, and Their Contributions to International Law All of the proceedings of the two conferences were con ducted in the French language, and since the speeches had first to be translated from the speakers' native lan guages into French and then, for the purpose of this book, into English, it can not be hoped that their original flavor and force have been fully retained. But it is to be hoped that enough has been retained to impress readers with the great and genuine eloquence of many of the speeches, and to illuminate the serious record of these two unique and epoch-making events in the world's history. 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.