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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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Sumner condemns the glorification of war and military glory as a misguided vanity.
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Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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