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I would, if I could, utter truth which, while approved by the old, should sink deep into the souls of the young, filling them with strength for all good works.
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Sumner expresses a desire to convey important truths to inspire the youth.
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I agree with the Convention in the importance of the new organization; nor do I think there are many candid persons, recognizing morals as the soul of all true politics, who will hesitate in this conclusion.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
As the Brotherhood of Man is practically recognized, it becomes impossible to restrict the feeling within any exclusive circle of country, and to set up an unchristian distinction of honor between civil war and international war.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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