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What confidence can anybody have in anything founded on such premises, which experience, if not reason, shows to be false?
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Sumner questions the reliability of conclusions based on flawed premises, highlighting the importance of sound reasoning.
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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.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
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.
More precious far at that moment the consolation that he had labored for his fellow-men, and the joyous confidence that all his cares had helped the Progress of his race!
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