The dispute between states can therefore, in so far as their particular wills can reach no agreement, be decided only by war. |340| But which injuries — of a kind that can easily arise in great numbers within a state’s far-reaching sphere and its manifold relations through its members — are to count as a determinate breach of treaties or a violation of recognition and honour remains something indeterminable in itself, since a state can invest its infinity and honour in each and every one of its particulars, and is all the more inclined to this touchiness the more a vigorous individuality is driven, by a long period of inner tranquillity, to seek out and create for itself a material for activity abroad.
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