On the record
Who does not feel his feet burn as he moves over the treacherous ashes?
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Sumner uses a metaphor to describe the dangers of ignoring past conflicts.
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Confessing the Fatherhood of God, and the consequent Brotherhood of Man, we find a divine standard of unquestionable accuracy.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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