de Vattel: Second Object of a Good Government; To Procure the True Happiness of the Nation

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To Procure the True Happiness of the Nation§ 110. A nation ought to labor after its own happiness.§ 111. Instruction.§ 112. Education of youth.§ 113. Arts and sciences.§ 114. Freedom of philosophical discussion.§ 115. Love of virtue, and abhorrence of vice, to be excited.§ 116. The nation may hence discover the intention of its rulers.§ 117. The state, or the public person, ought to perfect its understanding and will.§ 118. And to direct the knowledge and virtues of the citizens to the welfare of the society.§ 119. Love for their country.§ 120. In individuals.§ 121. In the nation or state itself, and in the sovereign.§ 122. Definition of the term country.§ 123. How shameful and criminal to injure our country.§ 124. The glory of good citizens, Examples
   1. See Xenophon, Lacedæmon. Respublica.
   2. Nam, ut vere loquamur, superstitio fusa per gentes oppressit omnium fere animos, atque omnium imbecillitatem occupavit.... multum enim et nobismet ipsis et nostris profuturi videbamur, si eam funditus sustulissemus. Nec vero (id enim diligenter intelligi volo) superstitione tollendâ religio tollitur. Nam et majorum instituta tueri, sacris cæremonilsque retinendis, sapientis est: et esse præstantem aliquam æternamque naturam, et eam suspiciendam, admirandamque hominum generi, pulchritudo mundi, ordoque coelstium cogit confiteri. De Divinatione, lib. ii.
   3. Harum ego religionem nullam unquam contemnendam putavi: mihique ita persuasi, Romulum auspiciis, Numam sacris constitutis, fundamenta jecisse nostræ civitatis, quæ nunquam profecto sine summa placatione Deorum immortalium tanta esse potjisset Habes, Balbe, quid Cotta, quid pontifex sentiat. Fac nunc ego intelligam, quid tu sentias: a te enim philosophe rationem accipere debeo religionis; majoribus autem nostris, etiam nulla ratione reddita, credere. De Natura Decorum, lib. iii.
   4. His country being attacked by the Heraclidæ, he consulted the oracle of Apollo; and being answered, that the people whose chief should be slain should remain victorious, Codrus disguised himself, and rushing into the battle, was killed by one or the enemy's soldiers.
   5. This affair happened in the year 1386. The Austrian army consisted of four thousand chosen men, among whom were a great number of princes, counts and nobility of distinguished rank, all armed from head to foot. The Swiss were no more than thirteen hundred men. ill armed. In this battle, the duke of Austria perished, with two thousand of his forces, in which number were six hundred and seventy-six noblemen of the best families in Germany. History of the Helvetic Confederacy, by De Wateville, vol. i. p. 183. — Tschudl — Etterlln. — Schodeler. — Ræbman.