But which of these injuries should be regarded as a specific breach of treaties or as an injury to the recognition and honour of the state remains inherently an sich indeterminable; for a state may associate its infinity and honour with any one of its individual interests, and it will be all the more inclined to take offence if it possesses a strong individuality which is encoura ged, as a result of a long period of internal peace, to seek and create an occasion Stoff for action abroad.