Neither can bygone prerogatives and precedents of magnificence and of mastery, except in so far as they unavoidably must come into play through the inability of men to divest themselves of their ingrained preconceptions, by virtue of which a Hohenzollern or a Hapsburger is something more formidable and more to be considered than a recruiting sergeant or a purveyor of light literature.

The league can do its work of pacification only by elaborately forgetting differences and discrepancies of the kind that give rise to international grievances.
Which is the same as saying that the neutralisation of national discriminations and pretensions will have to go all the way, if it is to serve.

But this implies, as broadly as need be, that the pacific nations who make the league and provisionally administer its articles of agreement and jurisdiction, can not exempt themselves from any of the leveling measures of neutralisation to which the dynastic suspects among them are to be subject.

It would mean a relinquishment of all those undemocratic institutional survivals out of which international grievances are wont to arise.

As a certain Danish adage would have it, the neutrals of the league must all be shorn over the same comb.
* * * * * What is to be shorn over this one comb of neutralisation and democracy is all those who go into the pacific league of neutrals and all who come under its jurisdiction, whether of their own choice or by the necessities of the case.