But it can never be forgotten, that, where one side is obviously fighting for Barbarism, any intervention, whatever form it takes,--if only by captious criticism, calculated to encourage the wrong side, or to secure for it time or temporary toleration, if not final success,--is plainly immoral.
Sumner condemns any form of intervention that supports barbarism, regardless of its nature.
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I agree with the Convention in the importance of the new organization; nor do I think there are many candid persons, recognizing morals as the soul of all true politics, who will hesitate in this conclusion.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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