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This was their lofty and wise and noble understanding of the justice of the Creator to His creatures,--yes, Gentlemen, to all His creatures, to the whole great family of man.
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Sumner emphasizes the universal justice of the Creator as understood by humanity.
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It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.
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.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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