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The marble will speak; nor is it difficult to divine the lesson it must teach.
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Sumner emphasizes the power of art to convey important lessons about patriotism.
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Confessing the Fatherhood of God, and the consequent Brotherhood of Man, we find a divine standard of unquestionable accuracy.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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.
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