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. 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."