On the record
Speeches cannot stop it; crafty machinations cannot change it.
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Sumner asserts that no amount of rhetoric or deceit can alter the course of justice.
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The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
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.
Confessing the Fatherhood of God, and the consequent Brotherhood of Man, we find a divine standard of unquestionable accuracy.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
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