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The people were ignorant, vicious, and poor, or degraded to abject slavery,--itself the sum of all injustice and all vice.
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Sumner critiques the moral and social conditions of the ancient populace, emphasizing their struggles.
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Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
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