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Excerpt from An Enquiry Into the Foundation and History of the Law of Nations in Europe, From the Time of the Greeks and Romans, to the Age of Grotius, Vol. 1 of 2
Why I have fixed upon this period as the clofcqntllt'. Treatife, is to be explained, paitly by tllc: codfid i8tlqn that the law has from that time been nearly flationary 5 but chie y becaufeit was the age of (31101105, to whofzeoil'rea tife little can be added, and from. Whom on anyqpoint it wouldbe almofi invainto differ. -bcf01e his time. The true principles of the. Law of Nations were fcarccly known.
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