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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it…”
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Sumner argues that the irrational nature of the War System cannot be justified by the virtues of its participants.
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