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But all law, whatever its juridical origin, whether Christian or Mohammedan, Roman or African, may be traced to other and ampler influences in Nature, sometimes of Right and sometimes of Wrong.
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This quote suggests that all laws, regardless of their origins, are influenced by broader natural principles of right and wrong.
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But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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