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Pestilence is a conflagration, and human life is the sacrifice.
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Sumner metaphorically describes pestilence as a fire that consumes human life.
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But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
I am opposed to a tariff for protection merely, and not for revenue."--Letter to John K.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
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