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A very great proportion of men in all the countries of the world are without property, and generally are subject to governments of which they have no participation, and over whom they have no control.
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Sumner discusses the plight of propertyless individuals who lack control over their governments.
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They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
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.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
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