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Though imperfectly understood, or recognized, in the night of ignorance and prejudice, they were heralds of the dawn.
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Sumner acknowledges the early advocates of progress who were misunderstood in their time.
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They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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