One might also call his analogy classic Whig historical exegesis:
"There is a manifest analogy between the situation which forced Lincoln's reluctant but unskakable decision to compel the Southern states to remain in the Union, and the situation today. A modern Lincoln wold apply himself to making the issue crystal-clear to his fellow-countrymen, and if he could find means, to the Russian people also. The issue is world-union or world-anarchy; world-union or world-slavery. The rulers of Russia, he would say, cannot be permitted to refuse world-union, and thereby to condemn the world to anarchy and slavery. If they will not consent, they must be compelled to come in." In Wight, Why is there no International Theory?
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