We cannot expect success while setting at nought this requirement, proclaimed in His divine character, in the dictates of reason, and in the examples of history,--proclaimed, also, in the events of this protracted war.
Here, Sumner asserts that true success cannot be achieved without adhering to the principles of justice and reason, especially during wartime.
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Let loyalty to one man be exchanged for Love to Man.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
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.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
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