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According to a venerable maxim of jurisprudence, “Whoso would have equity must do equity”; and God plainly requires equity at our hands.
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Sumner emphasizes the moral obligation to pursue justice and equity as a fundamental principle of law.
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Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
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.
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