hich were not represented at the
Conference of London, then the International Prize Court, which was
decided on at the second Hague Conference, will become a fact. This
Court will also become an organ of the international community. Mention
must also be made of the so-called international bureaux of the
so-called international unions, which have come into existence in the
period beginning with 1874; for some at least of them will develop into
organs of international society, although they so far are only organs of
the respective special international unions.

[Sidenote: The Hague Peace Conferences as organs of the family of
nations.]

25. Reference must in conclusion be made to the Hague Peace Conferences
themselves, for it is to be expected that such Conferences will assemble
periodically in the future. If success attends the effort to bring all
members of the international community to an agreement, in virtue of
which a Hague Peace Conference assembles at periodic intervals without
being called together by this or that power, then an organ of
international society will have arisen, the value of which none can
decry. It will then be possible to say that the international community
has become an actually organized society, and it will then be no longer
open to doubt that the organization of this society will gradually
become more and more developed. Before everything else this at least
will then be attained, that an organ of the international society of
states, comparable to the parliaments of individual states, will have
come into existence, which can attend to international legislation as
the needs of the time require, and can cause a continuous growth in the
range of matters submitted to international tribunals. All the same, I
yield myself to no hot-blooded hope of a speedy realization of Utopian
schemes. Even when this organization is already there, progress will be
but slight and gradual, and will encounter unceasing opposition.
Progress in this department has always to reckon on a conflict with
adverse interests and efforts, and it must be expected that in the
continuous struggle between _international_ and _national_ interests the
latter will only slowly prepare themselves to yield.

[Sidenote: Outlines of a constitution of the family of nations.]

26. It is not, however, enough that agreement should make periodic Peace
Conferences a permanent institution. The international community must
provide itself