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Rh action will be succccssively passed in review, in the hope that  in the exact treatment of them such remedial processes, if any, as are applicable to the evil of War, will gradually disclose themselves. These processes, it has been already insisted, do not consist of a series of cleverly-contrived devices, but rather of the wisely and aptly directed adjustment of existing and familiar relationships, the end being always unswervingly kept in view, and all the courses of action denoted being, as opportunity occurs, simultaneously and persistently resorted to. The main point of difference between this inquiry and a wider inquiry into all the elements of international well-being is, that here it is held that the extinction of War is one of the first and paramount aims to which general international policy ought at present to be directed, and that to this aim it can be wisely and hopefully directed.

subject of intervention, as the word is usually understood, relates to two entirely distinct topics; one, the interference on the part of one State in the internal affairs of another State; the other, interposition on the part of any State in a dispute or War between two or more other States. It is, however, not always possible or even necessary to keep the treatment of the two sorts of Intervention quite distinct, because it usually happens that Intervention of the first kind immediately leads to Intervention of the second kind; the attempt to support any one political party or side in a conflict within the limits of a single State, usually leading to political