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Their resemblance, at most, extends to the proverbial identity of chalk and cheese.
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Sumner uses a metaphor to emphasize the lack of similarity between two cases being discussed.
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But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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