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Are we to postpone action on all these questions until that possibly distant day?
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Sumner questioned whether action on pressing issues should be delayed until the uncertain future of constitutional amendments.
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Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
As the Brotherhood of Man is practically recognized, it becomes impossible to restrict the feeling within any exclusive circle of country, and to set up an unchristian distinction of honor between civil war and international war.
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.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
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