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The German mind is philosophical and scientific, and it early saw the irrational character of the War System.
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Sumner describes the German intellectual tradition as one that critically examines the irrationality of war.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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