Sorry I didn't presume to go that far back in time. There are massive reasons, not the least of which was Albert Einstein's annus mirabolis of 1905, that the enlightenment was continuing across the globe.
Lazy gun you confuse honouring treaties with signing them in the first place. I guess we'll have to watch tomorrow night for the BBC's dubious opinions on that matter.
We are no longer a global super-power as we were back then. Still I feel that we should honour our treaty obligations at whatever cost. The world is still not ready for John Lennon's utopian vision, much as it grieves me, that he sung out in 'Imagine'.