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As one is exalted above Humanity, so is the other degraded below it.
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Sumner highlights the extreme disparity between the exalted Brahmin and the degraded Sudra in society.
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Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
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.
Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
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