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This is too true; and now, as that conflict lowers, I invoke the spirit of our fathers.
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Sumner calls upon the spirit of the founding fathers as a rallying cry in the face of ongoing conflict.
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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.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
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