In the light of science and of religion, Humanity is an organism, complex, but still one,--throbbing with one life, animated by one soul, every part sympathizing with every other part, and the whole advancing in one indefinite career of Progress.
Sumner describes humanity as a complex organism, unified in its progress and shared existence.
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