Charles Sumner: “I refer to that greatest, most preposterous, and most irreligious of…”

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I refer to that greatest, most preposterous, and most irreligious of earthly vanities, the monstrous reflection of War,--Military Glory.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner condemns the glorification of war and military glory as a misguided vanity.

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