Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1919 — International Relations Will Be an Important University Study Now [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

International Relations Will Be an Important University Study Now

By NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER.

!, Pw'l Columbia Umvenity

Unless all signs fail, among the most important university subjects of study in the immediate future are to be international relations, including international law and public law, both constitutional and administrative, particularly in its comparative aspects. The new international movement, so far as it is healthy and sound, is founded upon a common respect for law and justice, a common interest in the steady improvement of individual nations and the promotion of their satisfaction and happiness, and upon an earnest purpose to unite the forces of reason and right-

eousness for the removal of causes of international war, and for the suppression of international war itself. That the universities are to play a powerful part in carrying forward these movements can hardly be doubted. In many lands the universities have already shown themselves to be the active centers of interest in international life and international relations. The danger to be guarded against is Jest a shallow and superficia sentimentalism shall usurp the place which belongs to reasonableness and to straight thinking. The world will not be made either wise or happy in a day, nor will its wisdom and happiness be assured by judicial decree, legislative enactment or international agreement, however judicious andwell supported these may seem to be.