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Thus is the ancient chalice which France handed to others now commended to her own lips.
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Sumner reflects on the historical consequences of France's wartime actions, suggesting a poetic justice.
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It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
I am in favor of a tariff for revenue, such a one as will yield a sufficient amount to the treasury to defray the expenses of the government, economically administered.
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