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All history and reason show that such conduct is more irritating than soothing.
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Sumner argues that aggressive actions often lead to more conflict rather than resolution.
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Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
More precious far at that moment the consolation that he had labored for his fellow-men, and the joyous confidence that all his cares had helped the Progress of his race!
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
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