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All this is wrong morally, and therefore must be wrong practically.
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Sumner asserts that moral wrongs in society will inevitably lead to practical wrongs in action.
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Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
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