1. 但是，一到人类获得了这种能力可以借说服或劝告来引他们去自行改善的时候（这个时期，所有国族老早已经达到，这里也必须提到我们自己），强制的办法，无论出以直接的形式或者出以如有不服则加痛惩的形式，就不能再成为为着他们自己的好处而许可使用的手段，就只有以保障他人安全为理由才能算是正当的了。
But as soon as mankind have attained the capacity of being guided to their own improvement by conviction or persuasion (a period long since reached in all nations with whom we need here concern ourselves), compulsion, either in the direct form or in that of pains and penalties for non-compliance, is no longer admissible as a means to their own good, and justifiable only for the security of others.