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All your late efforts have been grand: see the benefit of being insulted.
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Sumner reflects on the positive outcomes of recent challenges faced by a colleague, suggesting that adversity can lead to greatness.
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But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
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