On the record
No idle words were there, but substantial truth, binding on the conscience of mankind.
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Sumner asserts the importance of truth in moral discourse, emphasizing its binding nature on humanity's conscience.
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Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
Men are erring and mortal; principles are steadfast and immortal.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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