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War will be chronic, and we must all sleep on our arms.
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Sumner predicts a state of constant conflict if separation occurs, highlighting the urgency of the situation.
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The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
As the Brotherhood of Man is practically recognized, it becomes impossible to restrict the feeling within any exclusive circle of country, and to set up an unchristian distinction of honor between civil war and international war.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
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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