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True as this may be, it is a cheat, when used to cover dishonor.
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Sumner critiques the use of currency equality as a justification for dishonorable actions.
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Let loyalty to one man be exchanged for Love to Man.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
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