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Joyfully should I welcome it, as one of the signs of a new order of ages.
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Sumner expresses hope for a transformative change in international relations.
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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.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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