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Thus we stand now between two infinities,--the infinity of the Past, and the infinity of the Future; and the infinity of the Future is equal to the infinity of the Past.
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Sumner contemplates the concept of infinity in relation to both the past and the future.
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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.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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