Frederick Douglass: “The laws of its life are spiritual, not carnal, and it must conform to…”

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The laws of its life are spiritual, not carnal, and it must conform to these laws or it starves and dies.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass explains that a nation's spiritual laws are essential for its survival and growth.

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