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They must be treated as thread or gossamer, when they should be links of iron.
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Sumner emphasizes the importance of treating serious matters with the gravity they deserve, rather than dismissing them lightly.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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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