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I return to the point, that what it is proposed to prohibit by these fundamental conditions no State can of right do.
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Sumner argues that states do not have the right to prohibit certain fundamental conditions.
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Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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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