Augustine called the splendid vices, neglecting the simple virtues,--too long cultivated the flaunting and noxious weeds, careless of the golden corn,--too long been insensible to that commanding law and sacred example which rebuke all the pretensions of military glory.
Sumner critiques the neglect of simple virtues in favor of the vices associated with military glory, referencing Augustine.
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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.
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.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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