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Will it, and War passes among profane follies, like the ordeal of burning ploughshares.
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Sumner uses metaphor to illustrate the fading of war.
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Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
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.
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