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Here, from generation to generation, have State pretensions triumphed, perversely postponing that National Unity which is the longing of the German heart.
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Sumner critiques the dominance of state pretensions over the desire for national unity in Germany.
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I agree with the Convention in the importance of the new organization; nor do I think there are many candid persons, recognizing morals as the soul of all true politics, who will hesitate in this conclusion.
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.
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.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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