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The welfare of the Republic requires that there should he an end of “suits,” lest, while men are mortal, these should be immortal.
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Sumner argues for the necessity of resolving legal disputes to ensure the welfare of the Republic.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
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