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Shame on the country which needed such a wrong to move it to the right!
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Sumner expresses his outrage at the moral failings of the nation in this powerful statement.
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The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
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