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In the light of reason and religion there can be but one Law of War,--the great law which pronounces it unwise, unchristian, and unjust, and forbids it forever, as a crime.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “In the light of reason and religion there can be but one Law of War,--the great law which pronounces it unwise…”
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Sumner posits that the only legitimate law of war is one that condemns it as unjust and unwise.
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