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But the practical question remains, whether any seeming advantage in this respect is sufficient to counterbalance the disadvantage in other respects.
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Sumner questions whether any perceived benefits of a treaty outweigh its disadvantages.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
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.
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.
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