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In the church this outrage may be perpetrated,--because to forbid it would interfere with religion and set up an establishment.
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Sumner critiques the intersection of religion and social injustices in churches.
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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.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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