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We may have peace on other terms, but no union and peace.
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Sumner asserts that true peace cannot be achieved without unity and righteousness.
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The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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