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Look at the question as you will, in the light of morals or of jurisprudence, and the answer is the same.
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Sumner states that the moral and legal perspectives converge on the same conclusion regarding the issue at hand.
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Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
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