Beginning with small communities, it has proceeded stage by stage, extending to larger, until it embraced nations and distant places,--and now stamps itself ineffaceably upon increasing multitudes, making them, under God, pioneers in the grand march of Humanity.
Sumner describes the gradual expansion of civilization from small communities to larger nations.
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