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Why, three hundred dollars is no more to him than a three-penny loaf to the other person.
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Sumner illustrates the disparity in financial burdens between different socioeconomic classes.
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Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
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