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Health itself is valuable only as it enables us to perform the duties of life, and I know no present duty more commanding than that to which you refer.
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Sumner reflects on the importance of health in fulfilling one's responsibilities, particularly in the context of social justice.
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Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
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.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
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