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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. 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 chiefly 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.