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Success in this cause has been much beyond the means used , comparatively
greater than in any kindred enterprise . Few are fully aware how much has
already been gained . In little more than twenty years preceding the
commencement of ...
Success in this cause has been much beyond the means used , comparatively
greater than in any kindred enterprise . Few are fully aware how much has
already been gained . In little more than twenty years preceding the
commencement of ...
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principles as far as they please ; but the cause itself does not meddle with tea or
coffee , tobacco , or opium , or animal food . It may be said , for it has been , that
its principles , if carried out , would lead to the utter exclusion of such articles ; but
...
principles as far as they please ; but the cause itself does not meddle with tea or
coffee , tobacco , or opium , or animal food . It may be said , for it has been , that
its principles , if carried out , would lead to the utter exclusion of such articles ; but
...
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Such identity does not exist in the cause of temperance or anti - slavery , of Bibles
, tracts , or education , in any enterprise of benevolence or reform . There is all the
similarity of views requisite to union of efforts ; and it would be easy to find ...
Such identity does not exist in the cause of temperance or anti - slavery , of Bibles
, tracts , or education , in any enterprise of benevolence or reform . There is all the
similarity of views requisite to union of efforts ; and it would be easy to find ...
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We differ , then , only on a single point of this great cause the moral character of
wars strictly defensive . Even this difference is mainly theoretical ; for we unite in
condemning most of the wars called defensive , and can find very few that any ...
We differ , then , only on a single point of this great cause the moral character of
wars strictly defensive . Even this difference is mainly theoretical ; for we unite in
condemning most of the wars called defensive , and can find very few that any ...
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Only such means we aim to use ; and we would fain keep at work in this cause a
system of operations very like those in the temperance reform . Agents , and
tracts , and periodicals , and other instrumentalities , must be employed on a
large ...
Only such means we aim to use ; and we would fain keep at work in this cause a
system of operations very like those in the temperance reform . Agents , and
tracts , and periodicals , and other instrumentalities , must be employed on a
large ...
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