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Nor do I discuss the immorality and brutality too naturally engendered by a system whose inspiration is booty.
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Sumner critiques the moral implications of privateering, highlighting its brutal nature.
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Let loyalty to one man be exchanged for Love to Man.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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