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The proceedings were conducted gravely according to prescribed forms, which were digested into a system of peculiar subtilty and minuteness,--as War in our day is according to an established code, the Laws of War.
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Sumner compares the formal procedures of trial by battle to the structured laws governing modern warfare.
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But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
Confessing the Fatherhood of God, and the consequent Brotherhood of Man, we find a divine standard of unquestionable accuracy.
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