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It vitalizes and legalizes a system which civilization always accepted with reluctance, and our own country was one of the earliest and most persistent to denounce.
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Sumner expresses concern that the bill legitimizes a system that civilization has historically opposed.
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The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
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