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From the abundance of our possessions must we seek to remedy their lot.
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Sumner calls for using societal resources to improve the conditions of the less fortunate.
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But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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.
Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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