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If this were not so, earth would be heaven; for what could add to the happiness of life free from error and frailty?
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Sumner philosophizes about the nature of happiness and the inevitability of human error.
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Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
Confessing the Fatherhood of God, and the consequent Brotherhood of Man, we find a divine standard of unquestionable accuracy.
Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
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