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How lamentable that we should make Human Slavery the one sacred thing under the heavens!
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Sumner laments the moral failure of society in prioritizing human slavery above all else.
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Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
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