...rouse herself to a similar resolution. In such cases might gives the right to occupy or to conquer. Might is at once the supreme right and the dispute as to what is right is decided by the arbitrement of war. War gives a biologically just decision, since its decisions rest on the very nature...

...a law of necessity. This right of conquest is universally acknowledged. In such cases might becomes the supreme right, and the dispute as to what is right is decided by the arbitrament of war, which gives a biologically just decision, since that decision rests on the very nature of things. Industrial...

...population necessitates "new territory" and it can only be secured by conquest. "Might gives the right ; it is at once the supreme right, and the dispute as to what is right is decided only by the arbitrament of war." Bernhardi evokes moral idealism on the basis of his biological as...

...Bernhardi in these words : — " Might is the supreme right, and the dispute as to what constitutes the right is decided by the arbitrament of war. War gives a biologically just decision, because its decisions rest on the very nature of things." 1 Too repetitive, I know. It is because I...

...the life of man the struggle is not merely the destructive, but the life-giving, principle [page 18]. War gives a biologically just decision, since its decisions rest on the verynature of things [page 23]. The knowledge, therefore, that war depends on biological law leads...

...to attack the liberty of other States.— ( Times.') Might gives the right to occupy or to conquer. Might is at once the supreme right, and the dispute...since its decisions rest on the very nature of things. (G. $ TN War, 23.) s It would be a war to the knife with France ; one which would, if victorious, annihilate...

...elements of progress the ascendancy over the spirits of corruption and decay. "Might (concludes Bernhardi) is at once the supreme right, and the dispute as to...its decisions rest on the very nature of things." This invitation to return to nature in order to ascertain the rules of conduct between individuals...

...every doubt." Bernhardi has no reservations of the kind. " Might is the supreme right," he says, " and the dispute as • to what is right is decided...its decisions rest on the very nature of things." The " very nature of things " means here, of course, the power of the strong to crush the weak. So...

...possessor, but the victor, who then has the right. . . . " Might gives the right to occupy or to conquer. Might is at once the supreme right, and the dispute...War gives a biologically just decision, since its decision rests on the very nature of things. . . . " War depends on biological laws and this leads...

...difference. Even the article of the Bernhardi creed which (in him) so shocks us — the declaration that "What is right is decided by the arbitrament of war;...since its decisions rest on the very nature of things" — differs in no essential from the deeply religious view of (for instance) Mr. Wyatt, whom I have...