When your imprisonment comes to an end, theirs comes to an end also.
Editor's note · Context
Sumner emphasizes the interconnectedness of freedom and imprisonment for all individuals.
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As the Brotherhood of Man is practically recognized, it becomes impossible to restrict the feeling within any exclusive circle of country, and to set up an unchristian distinction of honor between civil war and international war.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
I agree with the Convention in the importance of the new organization; nor do I think there are many candid persons, recognizing morals as the soul of all true politics, who will hesitate in this conclusion.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.





