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The future has its great claims upon us; so also has the present.
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Sumner acknowledges the competing demands of present and future obligations, emphasizing the need for balance.
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But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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