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There is good law as well as sense in his saying, that a child is not put to a nurse that cares not for it.
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Sumner asserts the logical principle that one should not assign a task to someone who is not invested in its success.
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Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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.
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.
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