The Renovation of International Law: On the Basis of a Juridical Community of Mankind

I. Object and Scheme of the Work..- My object.- Mankind as a community de facto.- Mankind as a juridical community.- The unity of international law.- Scheme of the system.- The positive rules of the law of war.- The egotism of the States.- The burden of the subject-matter.- The causticity of some of the materials.- The use of a language.- II. The System.- First Part Public International Law.- First Section. The General Direction of Public Affairs.- Second Section. The Sources of Intenrational Law.- Third Section. Goods Destined, Although Only in General, for the Common Use of Mankind.- Fourth Section. Taxation.- Fifth Section. Public Welfare as a Matter of Offical Care.- Sixth Section. Prevention of Social Evil.- Seventh Section. Punishment.- Eigth Section. Jurisdiction.- Ninth Section. Arbiration and Judiciary.- Second Part of the System. Private international law.- III. A Few Considerations on the Positive Law of War.- The positive nature of the law of war.- The dogma of the righteous causes of war.- The causes of the development of customary rules, concerning warfare.- The first customary rule: “Not all means/to injure a foe are allowed”.- The secund customary rule: “Private individuals ought as a rule, but as a rule with exceptions, to be exempted from warlike harm.”.- The third customary rule : “Neutrals have rights and duties.”.- Consequence of the lack of precision of the customary rules.- The codification of the law of war.- A short digression to the domain of feelings.- The principle of the nationalities.- The national feeling inflated to passion.- The races of men.- The religious feeling and the religions.- Social-political parties.- Synopsis of the principal causes of war, connected with the realm of feelings.- The reduction of the number ofwars.- Huma-nization of the war.- Disappearance of the war.- IV. Synopsis of My Conclusions.- A glance back at my starting point.- The aim of my work.- My method.- My results.- National selfishness.- The war.- Corrigendum: Page 44, lines 19 and 25, for 14 read 15.