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Such learned debate on the rights of man dependent on complexion would excite a smile, if it did not awaken indignation.
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Sumner criticizes the absurdity of legal debates that tie human rights to skin color.
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But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
As the Brotherhood of Man is practically recognized, it becomes impossible to restrict the feeling within any exclusive circle of country, and to set up an unchristian distinction of honor between civil war and international war.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
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