On the record
Without Italian genius what now were modern civilization?
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Sumner asserts the vital role of Italian genius in shaping modern civilization.
Share
More from Charles Sumner
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
Other voices in this conversation
