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In vain you assert such “happy accidents.” In vain you show individuals who do not exert the wickedness of the law.
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Sumner argues against the idea that individual exceptions can justify the overall wickedness of slavery.
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Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
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.
More precious far at that moment the consolation that he had labored for his fellow-men, and the joyous confidence that all his cares had helped the Progress of his race!
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