Still further, it will yet be seen, that, sustaining these, we wastefully offend against economy, and violate also the most precious sentiments of Human Brotherhood,--taking counsel of distrust, instead of love, and provoking to rivalry and enmity, instead of association and peace.
Sumner warns that supporting the war system offends economic principles and human brotherhood.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
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