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I ask attention plainly and directly to the practical failure of justice which must arise without its adoption.
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Sumner calls for attention to the practical failures of justice that would occur without the proposed measure.
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Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
As the Brotherhood of Man is practically recognized, it becomes impossible to restrict the feeling within any exclusive circle of country, and to set up an unchristian distinction of honor between civil war and international war.
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