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The enlightened morality of our age will yet confess that it is equally wrong to commemorate by thanksgiving or holiday any bloody success, even in a just contest, over our brother man.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “The enlightened morality of our age will yet confess that it is equally wrong to commemorate by thanksgiving or holiday…”
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Sumner asserts that modern morality should reject the celebration of violent victories, even in just wars.
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