It should accordingly appear to be the first care of such a pacific league to reduce the sources of patriotic incitement to the practicable minimum.

This can be done, in such measure as it can be done at all, by neutralisation of national pretensions.

The finished outcome in this respect, such as would assure perpetual peace among the peoples concerned, would of course be an unconditional neutralisation of citizenship, as has already been indicated before.

The question which, in effect, the spokesmen for a pacific league have to face is as to how nearly that outcome can be brought to pass.

The rest of what they may undertake, or may come to by way of compromise and stipulation, is relatively immaterial and of relatively transient consequence.
A neutralisation of citizenship has of course been afloat in a somewhat loose way in the projects of socialistic and other "undesirable" agitators, but nothing much has come of it.