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It will be something, if, through the din of war, this work of peace proceeds, changing the national statutes into a harmonious text, and making them accessible to all.
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Sumner emphasizes the importance of peace and accessibility in national legislation during wartime.
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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.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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