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While pretending no indifference to earthly honors, I do claim to be actuated in this contest by something higher than an anxiety for office.
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Sumner expresses that his political motivations are driven by higher ideals rather than mere ambition for office.
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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.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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