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If we fail, then does Republican Government everywhere feel the shock.
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Sumner warns that failure in governance could have repercussions for Republican governments everywhere.
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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.
By Perpetual Peace Kant understood a condition of nations where there could be no fear of War; and this condition, he said, was demanded by reason, which, abhorring all War, as little adapted to establish right, must regard this final…
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
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