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It is larger, by more than five hundred millions, than the value of all the shipping belonging to the civilized world.
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Sumner asserts that the War System's costs are greater than the value of all shipping in the civilized world.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
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