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Employment would cease, capital would waste, mills would stop, the rich would become poor,--the poor, I fear, would starve.
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Sumner predicts dire economic consequences, including unemployment and poverty, if financial stability is disrupted.
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As the Brotherhood of Man is practically recognized, it becomes impossible to restrict the feeling within any exclusive circle of country, and to set up an unchristian distinction of honor between civil war and international war.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
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