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Not as brothers, not as friends, not as wayfarers of the common ocean, do they come together, but as enemies.
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Sumner reflects on the adversarial nature of conflict between nations.
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Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
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