be
eternal: therefore, there is no natural decease for a state,
as there is for a man, in whose case death is not only
inevitable, but often even desirable; but when a state is put
an end to, it is destroyed, extinguished. It is in some
degree, to compare small things with great, as if this whole
world were to perish and fall to pieces."

In his treatise on the Commonwealth, Cicero says those wars
are unjust which are undertaken without reason. Again, after
a few sentences, he adds, No war is considered just unless it
be formally announced and declared, and unless it be to
obtain restitution of what has been taken away.

But our nation, by defending its allies, has now become the
master of all the whole world.

XXIV. Also, in that same treatise on the Commonwealth, he
argues most strenuously and vigorously in the cause of
justice against injustice. And since, when a little time
before the part of injustice was upheld against justice, and
the doctrine was urged that a republic could not prosper and
flourish except by injustice, this was put forward as the
strongest argument, that it was unjust for men to serve other
men as their masters; but that unless a dominant state, such
as a great republic, acted on this injustice, it could not
govern its provinces; answer was made on behalf of justice,
that it was just that it should be so, because slavery is
advantageous to such men, and their interests are consulted
by a right course of conduct--that is, by the license of
doing injury being taken from the wicked--and they will fare
better when subjugated, because when not subjugated they
fared worse: and to confirm this reasoning, a noble instance,
taken, as it were, from nature, was added, and it was said,
Why, then, does God govern man, and why does the mind govern
the body, and reason govern lust, and the other vicious parts
of the mind?

XXV. Hear what Tully says more plainly still in the third
book of his treatise on the Commonwealth, when discussing the
reasons for government. Do we not, says he, see that nature
herself has given the power of dominion to everything that is
best, to the extreme advantage of what is subjected to it?
Why, then, does God govern man, and why does the mind govern
the body, and reason govern