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All who set themselves against Equality will be overborne; for it is the cause of Humanity.
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gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Sumner asserts that the pursuit of equality is a universal human cause that will ultimately prevail.
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It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
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