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If to any timid soul the Enterprise seems impossible because it is too beautiful, then do I say at once that it is too beautiful not to be possible.
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Sumner argues that the beauty of the antislavery cause makes it inherently achievable.
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Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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