INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, DESIGNED AS AN AID IN TEACHING, AND IN HISTORICAL STUDIES. BY THEODORE D. WOOLSEY, PERSIDEN OF TALE COLLEGE. SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED. NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER & CO., No. 654 BROADWAY. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. THIS brief exposition of the law of nations was writ ten for the purpose of supplying a practical want, which the author felt for a number of years, while engaged in teaching that science. The want was that of a compendious treatise, intended not for lawyers, nor for those who have the profession of law in view, but for young men, who are cultivating themselves by the study of historical and political science. The plan of the work shaped itself through its relations to those for whose use it was designed. While the state of the law of nations, as it is, was regarded as the chief point to be secured, it seemed almost equally important to compare the actual law with the standard of justice, and, by exhibiting the progress of the science in a historical way, to bring it into connection with the advances of humanity and of civilization. The success of the work, of which the first edition, issued early in the summer of 1860, has been for some time exhausted, shows that a want has been met by it, if not satisfied. |