Hume's Political Discourses

by David Hume

NOTES, OF THE BALANCE OF POWER.

[22] It was observed by some, as appears from the speech of Agelaus of Naupactum, in the general congress of Greece. See Polyb., lib. 5, cap. 104.

[23] Those concluded by the Peace of the Pyrenees, Nimeguen, Ryswick, and Aix-la-Chapelle.

[24] That concluded by the Peace of Utrecht.

[25] If the Roman Empire was of advantage, it could only proceed from this, that mankind were generally in a very disorderly, uncivilized condition before its establishment.