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Every infant of royal blood, every noble, every vassal, is a present example, that, whatever may be the injunctions of religion or the sentiment of the heart, men under these institutions are not born equal.
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Sumner argues that social hierarchies contradict the notion of equality, regardless of religious or emotional beliefs.
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