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There will be a new standard of excellence; and honor, divorced from blood, will become the inseparable attendant of good works alone.
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Sumner envisions a future where true honor is based on virtuous actions rather than lineage or blood ties.
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But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
Men are erring and mortal; principles are steadfast and immortal.
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