You showed what is the real backbone of a gentleman, considered in the higher moral or philosophical point of view, by far superior to what your assailers conceive or are able to imagine in their vulgar or low conceptions.
Sumner highlights the moral superiority of a gentleman's character in contrast to his attackers.
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The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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