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A great, broad, vital distinction there always is between power and right.
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Sumner articulates a fundamental distinction that is essential in discussions of governance and ethics.
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It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
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.
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