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No such enormous prerogative can be wrung out of any such moderate power.
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Sumner asserts that no significant power can be derived from minor regulatory authority.
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The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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