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You will see, that, amidst all disguises and subterfuges, the great question perpetually recurs: Are you for Freedom, or are you for Slavery?
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Sumner frames the central political question as a choice between freedom and slavery.
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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.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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