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Relieved from intolerable burden, industry would lift itself to unimagined labors, and society be quickened anew.
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Sumner envisions a revitalized society freed from the burdens of war.
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It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.
Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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