Note 120 — TRANSLATION[107] “PERPETUAL PEACE”[108]

“But is it fit, or can it bear the shock Of rational discussion, that a man, Compounded and made up like other men Of elements tumultuous, ....... ............... Should when he pleases, and on whom he will, Wage war, with any or with no pretence Of provocation giv’n or wrong sustain’d, And force the beggarly last doit, by means That his own humour dictates, from the clutch Of poverty, that thus he may procure His thousands, weary of penurious life, A splendid opportunity to die?” ............... ............... “He deems a thousand or ten thousand lives Spent in the purchase of renown for him, An easy reckoning.” [Tr.]