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On the contrary, your troubles will perhaps have the effect of a necessary amputation; they are perhaps the only means of saving you from the gangrene of luxury and corruption.
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Sumner suggests that hardships can lead to necessary changes for improvement.
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It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
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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