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No argument, no apology, no extenuation can remove or mitigate its requirements.
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This statement reflects Sumner's belief in the absolute nature of moral and ethical obligations.
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They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
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.
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