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The practical question will be, Can one nation do wrong to another without paying for the damage, whatever it may be, direct or indirect,--always provided it be susceptible of estimate?
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Sumner poses a fundamental question about the moral responsibility of nations to compensate for wrongs they commit against each other.
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Confessing the Fatherhood of God, and the consequent Brotherhood of Man, we find a divine standard of unquestionable accuracy.
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.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
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