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Civilization now writhes in travail and torment, and asks for liberation from oppressive sway.
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Sumner describes civilization as suffering and yearning for liberation from oppression.
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Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
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