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But if this cannot be done directly, it is idle to say that it can be done indirectly without a violation of good faith.
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Sumner argues that indirect actions cannot be justified if direct actions are prohibited.
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Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
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.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
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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