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With finite power he wrestles with the infinite, and he must fall.
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Sumner illustrates the struggle between limited human power and infinite ideals.
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Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
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.
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.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
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