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Without this alliance insurrection is inevitable, destined to be wild and lawless.
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Sumner warns that without unity, insurrection is bound to occur.
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But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
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