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They are the powers conceded by civilized society to nations at war, known as Rights of War,--at once multitudinous and minute, vast and various.
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Sumner defines the Rights of War as powers granted to nations at war, which are numerous and varied.
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Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
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