The words "justice" and "right" are too great in stature to be shut up in proper nouns, any more than Providence can be, which every royalty would fain take to itself.
National aspirations--confessed or unconfessable--are contradictory among themselves.

All populations which are narrowly confined and elbow each other in the world are full of dreams vaster than each of them.

The nations' territorial ambitions overlap each other on the map of the universe; economic and financial ambitions cancel each other mathematically.

Then in the mass they are unrealizable.
And since there is no sort of higher control over this scuffle of truths which are not admissible, each nation realizes its own by all possible means, by all the fidelity and anger and brute force she can get out of herself.

By the help of this state of world-wide anarchy, the lazy and slight distinction between patriotism, imperialism and militarism is violated, trampled, and broken through all along the line, and it cannot be otherwise.