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India, the land of caste, and Turkey, the abode of polygamy, both fasten upon Slavery the stigma of reprobation.
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Sumner highlights that countries like India and Turkey condemn slavery, contrasting their views with those of the United States.
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But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
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