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It is simply the intent to remain, the animus manendi.
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Sumner reiterates that the core legal concept is the intent to remain.
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It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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