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Knowing our honored guest by his life, I am sure that to him war is detestable, while Republican Government is his aspiration for France.
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Here, Sumner describes his guest's aversion to war and aspiration for a Republican government in France.
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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.
Men are erring and mortal; principles are steadfast and immortal.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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