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It goes to show that they are not yet in any just sense reconstructed, or prepared for reconstruction.
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Sumner asserts that the current state of affairs indicates that reconstruction is not yet achieved.
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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.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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