There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs.

Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights.

We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.

An advantage that the Hague Conferences lack, in contrast to the peace associations and the Interparliamentary Union, is a bureau.

As a result of my study, I came to the conclusion that a common supreme authority was undesirable.