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If regarded as a motive, it must be expelled from the system, that it may no longer exercise its malign influence.
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Sumner insists that slavery must be expelled from society to prevent its harmful influence.
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Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
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.
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