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Assemblies, whether of science or philanthropy, are no longer municipal merely, but welcome delegates from all the nations.
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Sumner points out that assemblies focused on science and philanthropy are now inclusive of delegates from all nations.
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It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
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