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Alas! there have been crimes in human history, but I know of none blacker than this.
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Sumner reflects on the severity of certain historical crimes, emphasizing their moral gravity.
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The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
Confessing the Fatherhood of God, and the consequent Brotherhood of Man, we find a divine standard of unquestionable accuracy.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
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