By such profane devices men sought to establish that relation, whose beauty they perceived, though they failed to discern, that, by the ordinance of God, without any human stratagem, it justly comprehended all their fellow-men.
Sumner reflects on the limitations of human attempts to create bonds that are already divinely ordained among all people.
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