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Thus, whichever way we approach it, the absurdity of this pretension becomes manifest.
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Sumner asserts that the absurdity of certain pretensions becomes clear regardless of the approach taken.
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Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
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