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For them every sentiment of humanity is aroused.
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Sumner expresses the universal human sentiment of compassion for the plight of fugitive slaves.
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The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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