It stands before us, a colossal image of International Justice, with the sword, but without the scales,--like a hideous Mexican idol, besmeared with human blood, and surrounded by the sickening stench of human sacrifice.
Sumner vividly depicts the image of International Justice as flawed and bloodied by war.
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