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Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
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Sumner challenges his audience to compare the War System's costs with other societal interests.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
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.
More precious far at that moment the consolation that he had labored for his fellow-men, and the joyous confidence that all his cares had helped the Progress of his race!
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