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No longer are we met, as so often in times past, on questions of controversy, or to sustain our cause by argument.
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Sumner reflects on the shift from contentious debates to a more unified purpose.
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More precious far at that moment the consolation that he had labored for his fellow-men, and the joyous confidence that all his cares had helped the Progress of his race!
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
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