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Such an incident cannot be forgotten, and his name will always remind us of courageous enterprise, before which distance and difficulty disappeared.
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Sumner reflects on the legacy of a courageous naturalist who faced great challenges in exploration.
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Confessing the Fatherhood of God, and the consequent Brotherhood of Man, we find a divine standard of unquestionable accuracy.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
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