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Literature, eloquence, and poetry lent themselves to expose the terrible inconsistency.
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Sumner highlights the role of literature and eloquence in revealing the contradictions of society.
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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.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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.
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