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If we can, we ought; for this is nothing but the honest payment of what we owe.
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Sumner argues that if it is possible to pay debts, it is also a moral imperative to do so.
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The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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