Excerpt from The Way of Peace: Essays and Addresses I AM greatly indebted for perinission, kindly given to me, to republish certain of these essays and addresses: to the Editor of the Quarterly Review, for the essay on the Party System to the Editor of The Spectator for the essay on The League in Retrospect to the University College, London, for the Rickman Godlee Lecture on The Genesis of Cooperation to the Lindsey Press for the address on The Moral Basis of the League of Nations to the Trustees, and the Delegates of the Oxford University Press, for the Burge Memorial Lecture (1920) on International Arbitration to the University College Union Society for the address on The Future of the League and to the World Peace Foundation for that on Disarmament and the League. The articles and addresses are printed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.