...international law, in regard to the European international politics of the early seventeenth century, "a license in making war of which even barbarous nations would have been ashamed. Recourse was had to arms for slight reason or no reason, and when arms were taken up, all reverence for divine...

...should write a work on that subject. For I saw prevailing throughout the Christian world a licence in making war of which even barbarous nations would...been ashamed ; recourse being had to arms for slight or no reason ; and when arms were once taken up, all reverence for divine and human law was thrown...

...and are held to be possessed of equal rights of belligerency.3 So long as the possible condemnations would have been ashamed; recourse being had to arms for slight reasons or for no reason; and when arms were once taken up, all reverence for divine and human law was thrown...

...reason for writing on this subject that he " saw prevailing throughout the Christian world a licence in making war of which even barbarous nations would have been ashamed." " The books written by men inspired by God, or approved by them, I often use as authority, with a distinction...

...Hugo Grotius published a treatise on the law of war and peace. He said that he wrote it because he "saw prevailing throughout the Christian world a license...barbarous nations would have been ashamed. Recourse was had to arms for slight reasons or no reason; and when arms were once taken up, all reverence for...

...spectacle horrified Grotius. " I saw prevailing," he said, " throughout the Christian world a licence in making war of which even barbarous nations would...; recourse being had to arms for slight reasons or for no reason; and when arms were once taken up, all reverence for divine and human law was thrown...

...the Thirty Years War. Grotius also writes : I saw prevailing throughout the Christian world a licence in making war of which even barbarous nations would...arms were once taken up, all reverence for divine or human law was thrown away, just as if men were thenceforth authorized to commit all crimes without...

...because he could not understand the barbarity with which war was waged in his generation. As he put it: "I saw prevailing throughout the Christian world a...barbarous nations would have been ashamed; recourse to arms being had for slight reasons or no reason; and when arms were once taken up, all reverence...

...in the preface to De Jure Bell ac Pads (The Law of War and PeaceJ warned: "I saw prevailing through the Christian world a license in making war of which...barbarous nations would have been ashamed. Recourse was had to arms for slight reason or no reason; and once arms were taken up, all respect for divine...

...had disappeared with the fragmentation of Christendom. In his own time, Grotius observed 'a licence in making war of which even barbarous nations would have been ashamed; recourse was had to arms for slight reasons, or for no reason; and when arms were once taken up, all reverence...