Even at the very morning of Creation, when God said, “Let there be Light,”--earlier than the malediction against murder,--he set the everlasting difference between man and chattel, giving to man “dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Sumner reflects on the biblical creation narrative to illustrate the distinction between humans and property.
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It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
I am in favor of a tariff for revenue, such a one as will yield a sufficient amount to the treasury to defray the expenses of the government, economically administered.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
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