He looked forward to the coming of an age of rational statesmanship, when every prime minister and foreign minister would recognize that regardless of the matter in dispute, binding arbitration between nations was a better strategy than war.
Avizoraba la llegada de una era de estadismo racional, en que cada primer ministro y ministro de relaciones exteriores reconocería que, independientemente del tema en disputa, el arbitraje vinculante entre naciones era una mejor estrategia que la guerra.