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These are surer evidences of the wisdom, goodness, and nobility of your cause than all the praises of your numerous friends and admirers.
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Sumner asserts that the true merits of a cause are proven through its challenges rather than mere praise.
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Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
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