In the fact that states mutually recognize one another as such, there remains, even in war — that condition of rightlessness, violence, and contingency — a bond whereby they count for one another as beings in and for themselves, so that even in war itself, war is determined as something that ought to pass away. It thus contains the determination, in accordance with international law, that the possibility of peace be preserved within it — so that, for example, envoys are respected — and, in general, that it not be waged against internal institutions and peaceful family and private life, nor against private persons.